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...Sophomores held a class meeting Wednesday evening to elect Marshals in the place of Messrs. Morison and Cabot, who go to Canada with the Football Team to-day, and will not be back in time for the torchlight procession. C. H. Kipp was made First Marshal; W. Soren, Second Marshal; and C. P. Curtis, Jr., Third Marshal...
...which few (probably none) have. Professor White certainly makes no such assumption; for he hopes in future to make the course a three-hour course, and to read the whole of Herodotus in one year, thus doing what those who wished to elect the course, as now given, a second time hoped to accomplish. The only reason that can be seen for the refusal of the Faculty to allow Greek 3 and English 2 to be elected a second time is that it was considered that the men who did so would have an advantage in marks over those...
...would advise all who can spare the time every second Thursday, between 2 and 5 P.M., to attend the debates in English 6. Much can be learned there, not only by those wishing to become good debaters, but by all who seek that peculiar kind of improvement which, for want of a better name, is called "general culture." Great as the advantage is of listening to the speeches of four well-prepared disputants, it is small in comparison with the advantage of learning sound lessons in tact and acuteness from an instructor who has made these subjects a life study...
...ball was kept close upon Britannia's goal, and they were forced to touch back for safety several times. Within a few minutes from the beginning of play, Smith kicked a goal from the field; and again, before the end of the first three-quarters, he kicked a second goal in the same way, the ball having been passed back to him each time. At the beginning of the second three-quarters, Britannia so pressed Harvard that the latter were forced to touch back for safety repeatedly. During the remainder of the time, however, the ball was forced now toward...
...stake-boat before alluded to, the Seniors had a slight disadvantage on the start. The Sophmores soon drew ahead, Curtis working his crew at 42 strokes, while the others were six strokes slower. The Sophomores led by about a length, near the end of the first mile, with '81 second, and '82 virtually out of the race. But now the Seniors commenced a magnificent spurt, and drew up inch by inch on '83. The latter spurted also, but too late, as the Seniors crossed the line a third of a length ahead. Time...