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...choice of Class Day for the race involves many disadvantages. Seniors, unnecessarily compelled to choose between two events, would naturally select Class Day. Many undergraduates, too, might be expected to choose Class Day. At any rate, the conflict of dates will cause a division of interests, and neither event will be so successful as it otherwise would be. The crew will row its race before a mere handful of Harvard students, and if enthusiastic cheering counts for anything, it will be at a decided disadvantage, and setting the race on Class Day will tend to restore that old indifference towards...
...sake of an imagined advantage, should the crew select of three possible dates, the one which is so little justifiable? Why should it not have more regard for the interests of the student body and for its own interests? For the interests of the crew and the interests of the students are, or at least should be, inseparable. These interests demand that the race be rowed June 23 or June 24, preferably the former. Such a date would not detract from Class Day and would give the crew the support of the students...
...universities and colleges in the United States. They will be awarded chiefly on the basis of a written examination. The examinations will be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 20, 21, and 22, 1897, in Athens, Rome, Berlin and in America at any college that a candidate may select of the institutions which co-operate in the support of the school. Each candidate must announce his intention to offer himself for examination, to Professor John W. White of the Greek Department not later than April...
...Heywood belonged to the "Social Circle," the oldest and most select club in Concord, which was formed in 1782 and grew out of the famous Committee of Safety...
...most enthusiastic meeting of candidates for the Mott Haven Team was held last night in Lower Massachusetts for the purpose of ascertaining the material which could be counted upon from which to select a team. For this purpose a number of graduates, men who have been on winning Harvard teams in the past, came out to Cambridge to encourage the new men and give them the benefit of their experience...