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More, at the recent regular meeting of the New York alumni they advocated the names of Mr. Charlemange Tower of Philadelphia for one of the vacant places on the board. Prominent men in the west are likely, also, to receive nominations that the list next June may contain names from all sections...
...recent meeting of the New York Harvard Club, it was resolved that an effort be made to have Latin cease to be the official language of the university, and to have the commencement programs and quinquennial catalogue printed in our own language. Much as we favor classical education, we believe that the change advocated by the Harvard Club is a wise one, at least as far as the quinquennial catalogue is concerned. The usefulness of that valuable work would be much increased if it were printed in a language in which a few of us are moderately versed...
...weather has not been hard upon our base-ball nine alone. The Dartmouth nine during their recent spring recess started on a trip to play several games ; but the weather was so bad that they had to disband until term began again...
...interest of the number. Henry James' new sketch is certainly an international one, if its situation in London and its reference to almost every one of the larger American cities can make it such ; still it is, like all Mr. James' work, clever. Mrs. Van Rensselaer's article on "Recent Architecture in America," is very interesting ; the article has little but praise for the new Harvard Medical School, Sever Hall and the Law School. Mr. Hawthorne's article on the Salem of his father is interesting alike from its subject and its writer, who promises us further articles about Hawthorne...
...Sargent's recent lecture on "What shall we eat to get strong?" he said in the course of his remarks : It has been customary to train athletes on lean beef and mutton, but he thought this a mistake, as tissue-making food should be used in combination with these, and the diet should be so changed as to meet the requirements of the organism of the person using it, for to establish one diet for all persons was ridiculous. Beef alone is not superior to meal, beans or other farmaceous food, and the size of the muscles...