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...request of the Chinese government, five Chinese youths will be admitted next September to West Point, and five to Annapolis. All of them are of the rank of princes...
...spite of the severe reprobation of the other Yale papers the Record bravely holds to its original opinion that the Yale faculty did an unwise thing in refusing to accede to President Eliot's request in regard to playing with professionals. "It is high time," it says, "however awkward it might be for our nine, that a broad boundary be put between college athletes and professionals. Though we realize perfectly that our nine, deprived of the practice it gets against professionals, would play a much poorer game than at present, and probably would not meet as good amateur nines...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes has tendered his resignation as Parkman professor of anatomy in the Medical School of Harvard University. At the request of the officers of the board of government it will be permitted to remain in abeyance until satisfactory arrangements can be made for permanently filling the vacancy, and for the present the doctor will continue with his lectures to the first class of the school, which is the only one that comes under his department of instruction. His retirement is not enforced by ill health or the inaptitude sometimes incident to increasing years, but is induced...
...with Harvard was not to be rowed, and not to practice for any other race, as Columbia College had no other race to row. The meeting finally approved of the action of the directors of the boat club in all matters connected with the difficulty, and also decided to request the directors of the boat club to have a report compiled by its committee. The meeting also determined to request the directors of the boat club to abolish the fall regatta of the college in order that the college athletes may all devote themselves to foot-ball...
...Both the Harvard representatives acknowledged the propriety of this action, but hoped that Columbia would decide to row Harvard within a reasonable time, so that the event for which both crews had been so long preparing would not be entirely abandoned. It was at Harvard's request, therefore, that the Columbia crew decided not to disband. The Columbia captain thanked the Harvard representatives for their proposition and at once said that any day would be agreeable to his crew, but it must be after Mr. Benjamin's funeral. The day was then set by Harvard as Monday, July...