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Charles O. Wells of Amherst, who held the intercollegiate record at one mile in 4.29 4-5 seconds, and was president of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1891, died in Cleveland, recently of typhoid fever...
...Cricket Eleven opens its season in Cambridge today with a game with the Chelsea Cricket Club. To judge from the record made by the Chelsea eleven last year, the game is almost sure to be a good one. Those who do not go with the nine to Providence will have a good chance or getting a better idea of how the game of cricket is played. One of the reasons why the college takes so little interest in the game is that most of the men do not understand the fine points of the playing. Almost any game would seem...
...feel as if I were to make my commencement address; I wish I were." He followed by making a strong appeal to all young men, especially college men, in favor of the Republican party; spoke of it as the party of original thought and ideas; dwelt glowingly on the record of the party in the past and its position today, and closed by urging all present to join its ranks...
...goes without saying that a man of Senator Hawley's reputation commanded the closest kind of attention. His record as a leader in the Senate made his remarks on the tariff the subject of the deepest interest. Apt quotations from Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill's works were used effectively in illustrating his points and proved conclusively, when supplemented by his own material, the necessity of this country for a protective tariff. The Senator spoke feelingly on the subject of domestic manufactures, gave vivid examples of prosperity under the present system, and closed by exposing our present helplessness...
...game was probably as poor an exhibition of base ball as has been seen on Jarvis, this year. The batting was certainly a redeeming feature. A home run by Corbett, three-baggers by Hallowell and Mason, two-baggers by Paine and Hovey, and seven singles, being a creditable record for one game. But the fielding was wretched for the most part. It was only owing to the equally bad work of the Boston Unions, that saved Harvard from defeat. The game was interesting, for the score was kept comparatively close, and it is always more or less exciting...