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...only two serious faults. In the first place, it is unfortunate that Harvard men do not volunteer to work unless they are urged to do so. Perhaps the peculiar atmosphere of New Haven may account for the strikingly large number of men there volunteering for work before receiving any request. Harvard men appear reluctant thus to come forward...
...obsequies will take place shortly after four o'clock this afternoon on the diamond behind the University grandstand. By a special last request of the deceased the undefeated CRIMSON champions will act as pall-bearers to see that the Lightweight Jester from Mount Auburn street is deeply and irrevocably buried...
...School has just made a very important purchase of a collection of local and private acts of Great Britain covering the period from 1712 or thereabouts to 1830. These are acts of a personal character originally printed in very limited numbers at the request and expense of the parties concerned in the various suits, before printed records were decreed by the government. The confection just purchased consists of about 12,000 such acts, and it is believed than with the collection already in the library, it will constitute by far the most complete collection in this country...
...many years Director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, told me that, in the fall of 1871, he rowed in a 30-inch shell on the first sliding seat ever used at Harvard. Brown, then the "champion sculler of America," got the seat for him in England, and at his request. On page 22, Lehmann says that the seats were invented in America, and that they were introduced into England...
Professor R. M. Johnston, of the History Department, will deliver an informal lecture on "The Present European Situation, Political and Military," in Emerson A this evening at 8 o'clock. This is a special lecture, given at the request of a number of students interested in the subject. All members of the University will be admitted...