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...shorter stories seem the better. "Our Visitors" and "Epitaph on a Maid-of-all-work" by H. W. Longfellow are especially good, "To a Drop of Fresh Pond Water" by Curtis Guild, Jr., '81, and "The Maiden's Gambit" by F. J. Stimson '76, show no signs of age except in the appended dates of their respective authors...
...painters of the "monde ou Pon s'amuse," Meilhac and Halevy seem to have left their gifts of witty and amusing observation to M. Henri Lavedan and M. Maurice Donnay...
...total number of points scored by these men last year is 52 for Harvard and 22 3-4 for Yale. The prospect for Yale, however, is much better than this would seem to indicate, for two old point-winners, who did nothing last year will probably score next spring. These are W. M. Fincke '01S. in the hurdles and R. Sheldon '02S. in the weights. Besides this, it is safe to predict that under Trainer Murphy's direction there will be a very considerable development of new material. It is a significant fact that of the six men that Murphy...
...show what percentage of the students who graduated with distinction each category contains, and this table will be found to be one of the most interesting of the series. It proves conclusively that many of the strongest students of the College abandon the Classics and mathematics for studies which seem to them more likely to be serviceable in the actual activities of modern society. These tables, as the Dean points out, do not furnish material for an exhaustive study of the elective system in Harvard College; but they support the belief that as a body the students use the system...
...American colleges seem to be gradually learning how to conduct amateur sports in a reputable manner. Harvard University has had its full share of difficulties during the past thirty years; but it has at last found its way to a satisfactory constitution for a committee to regulate athletic sports. This committee has been imitated in other institutions; and its work has gradually found acceptance among both the undergraduates and the graduates of Harvard University, and among the students and graduates of other institutions. Thus the rules governing eligibility which were worked out by the Harvard committee have proved acceptable...