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...increased manufacture of steel rails. A few years ago it was the boast of a few railroads that their rails were made of steel, but now scarcely a road is without this improvement, and iron rails are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. On account of a recent improvement, the power of the Bessemer process has been largely increased. It was formerly limited to certain ores, which were scarce in the coal region of our country, but now can be extended to such a degree as to be almost universal in its workings...
Bicyclists will be pleased to learn that by a recent decision of the attorney-general of the United States that hereafter bicycles will be considered as personal effects, and as such will be admitted free of duty when accompanied by the owner. This will enable riders to get machines in England and bring them over much cheaper than they can buy them in this country...
JUNIOR FORENSICS.The fourth junior forensic will be due on April 17. Subjects: 1. A criticism of the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the legal-tender case...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-The recent lengthy discussion of the so-called athletic question brought into notice the great lack of athletic grounds at Harvard. As the pleasant spring weather comes with all its temptations for out-door exercise we are reminded still more forcibly of this lack of room. The year before Holmes field was altered by the preparations for building the new Jefferson Laboratory, the college grounds devoted to recreation were as follows: Jarvis field, the major part of which was used exclusively for base ball, the remainder being divided into tennis courts, from a dozen to twenty...
...Lafayette, Williams, Rutgers, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Stevens Institute, St. John's College and Columbia College. Our delegates were Burr and Sexton, '84. There were about 50 delegates present. J. M. Wainwright of Col. presided. Resolutions were adopted declaring that it was the sense of the meeting that the recent action of the committees appointed by the various college faculties in drawing up a series of resolutions regarding athletics was unnecessary and inexpedient ; that no abuses existed in inter-collegiate athletics that could not be corrected by the students themselves ; that the students of the various colleges ought to have...