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...tennis courts at Hartford are said to be in rather poor condition...
...skill of the sophomores in rowing was tried rather unexpectedly last week. When about one mile and a half from shore the boat sprung a leak and they pulled for the shore in good earnest.-[Yale News...
...Jones, and recitations by the members of the club. The plan which the club has in giving these entertainments, to bring the subject of elocution before the college at large, is an excellent one. The study of elocution is one which is too much neglected here, and which languishes rather from the students' tendency to keep in the regular rut to which they are accustomed, than from any fault of the study itself. Those who do take up elocution generally become enthusiastic over it, but their number is too small to make an impression upon the great mass...
Jarvis was lined with a crowd of over two hundred students, yesterday afternoon, who closely watched the work of the eleven, or rather of the men who are trying for places on the eleven. There were present on the field twenty-three men, who played a fairly interesting game. Many new faces were noticed among the players, '87 being especially prominent. The presence of Wesselhoeft, '84, and Cabot, '86, seemed to give promise of better things for the team. Bemis, Colony, and Foster, of '85, also took part in the game. The work was earnest throughout, and fairly creditable...
...statue will represent him as a rather slender and tall young man seated in an armchair with an open book, presumably a Bible, on one knee. He is buried in deep meditation, and his clear cut, noble features indicate great depth of character and refinement of intellect, combined with a strong will and well-defined purpose. Competent judges declare that the work is excellent, portraying the thinker, scholar, and preacher such as John Harvard...