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...approaching complimentary dinner to the university crew. There ought to be no need of urging the students to be present on this occasion and thus show their appreciation of the crew's splendid work last year. But the dinner last fall was such a fiasco and the recent meeting was so poorly attended that it shows the need of an earnest appeal to prevent the coming dinner from being a failure...
While we at Harvard have been alternately shocked by the boat house disaster and entertained by the freshman sports, tennis tournaments and foot-ball practice, our neighbors at Yale have been undergoing experiences quite as varied, and even more unfortunate. The recent death of a prominent member of '84 has cast a feeling of sadness over the greater part of the college, which will not be entirely dispelled for many weeks. There have been various rumors of the prevalence of typhoid fever, but as yet they appear to be without foundation, this being the only death attributable to such...
...understand that the college expects soon to make an examination of the boat house with the idea of finding the cause of the recent accident. Of course such an examination is necessary and will give us much information as to the affair. But the investigation, to be entirely satisfactory, should be conducted by persons who are entirely disinterested, as any investigation by persons connected with the college will be more or less liable to the suspicion of prejudice. The boat house was under the management of the college and of course the college will be interested in making a report...
...Archaeological Institute of America, next Wednesday, in Huntingdon Hall, at 8 P. M. The speakers will be Professor W. W. Goodwin, on the American school of classical studies at Athens, Mr. J. T. Clarke, on the results of the expedition to Assos, Professor W. R. Ware, on his recent visit to Assos, and the Rev. Phillips Brooks...
...recent editorial in the Advocate on handicap races perhaps does not touch on the main advantage of handicap races :-First, that it improves the pace, second, that it gives a chance to everybody, and third, that it makes and improves every sort of athlete. That handicap races tend to improve the pace and increase record-breaking can not be doubted. Over and over again have we seen our champion runners leaving their opponents in the rear, so much that there was no interest in the race. Now if these second rate opponents had been given starts, there would have been...