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...Class Song will be held tonight and to-morrow at 7.15 in Boylston Hall. Not more than twenty-five men attended either of the first two. The chorister earnestly wishes that a larger number may be present at the remaining rehearsals. To be sure the song may be considered rather a minor feature, vet if it deserves a place on the programme at all, it deserves to be done well. In order to prevent it from being utterly flat, it is necessary that it should be sung, and not merely played by the band with the accompaniment...
...members of the Princeton faculty are getting up a small volume of two-hundred pages entitled "The Princeton Handbook." It is to be descriptive rather than historical, and will contain reproductions of photographs of the college, and also of objects of interest about the town...
...were all rowed in six-oared shells. The course then used was at Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, which was one and a half miles up the lake and return. Of these seven races Harvard won five, - Yale being victorious in the first two. The races at that time were usually rather unevenly contested, - that of 1876, for instance, being won by Harvard by a minute and twelve seconds...
...have almost invariably been well contested, that of 1882 being especially fine, when Harvard beat Yale by scarcely three seconds. The fastest time recorded was that made by Yale in 1884, when she won in 20m. 31s. Last year, although Harvard had an excellent crew, the time made was rather bad, owing to the poor conditions...
Boston Museum. - Harrigan's Co. in "The Leather Patch." This play bears a strong resemblance to Mr. Harrigan's other droll comedies. And that is rather a recommendation than objection...