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...Secretary of the Freshman Nine has received a challenge from the Secretary of the Yale Freshman Nine to play a series of three games, the first at New Haven, the second at Harvard, and the third (if necessary) on neutral grounds...
...Harvard Register for February was received yesterday. The second number is in all respects an improvement on the first. Nearly all the articles have a general interest even for students, and some are not without a special interest, as, for example, Dr Peabody's college customs fifty years ago, and President Eliot's treatment of the subject of scholarship, in which open scholarships are strongly opposed and the present system commended. Mr. Arthur Gilman gives the origin of the Annex, and Professor N. S. Shaler a short account of the Natural History Society, while Dr. D. A. Sargent replies...
...question, in such a case, whether an Overseer could hold his seat without being re-elected as a citizen of the State to which he had removed. But that is no reason why a non-resident candidate chosen by electors from different States should not be eligible. In the second place, if the cases had been similar, there are many reasons why the precedent set by the action of six years ago should be disregarded. A committee of eminent lawyers decided against the election then, and a committee of equally eminent lawyers decide in favor of it now. There must...
...PHILLIPS BROOKS will preach his second sermon before the students of the College on Sunday evening, Feb. 8, at St. John's Memorial Chapel. Part of the church will be reserved for members of of the University until twenty minutes past seven...
...second place, what would be saved to study? Very few men pass Saturday night at their desks; and it is safe to say that home influences are as beneficial as those of the city. The natural tendency to relaxation at the end of the week is inevitable, and, in our opinion, desirable. Granted that there is a loss of hours by this weekly absence, is there not a proportionate gain in earnestness and application? Surely a change of scene does not weaken mental powers...