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...17th session of the Saveur College of Languages, removed from Amherst Mass., will, for the first time, be held in Exeter, from July 11 to Aug. 19. Classes will meet in the recitation building at Phillips Academy, with its gymnasium as a casino. The French, German and English comedies will frequently be presented...
...Whitney has accused Harvard of being unsportsmanlike in its dealings with Yale in regard to the coming track athletic games between the two colleges. As will be remembered, delegates from Yale and Harvard met not long ago, to settle the time and place of the games. After holding secret session, they parted without settling upon anything definite. As the games last year were held in Cambridge, it was Yale's turn to set the place. The constitution under which the games are held, provides definitely for the date of the games, by saying that "the annual contest shall be held...
...powers and its dignities with the state committees. There is also a Congressional Committee, which was formerly known as the Congressional Caucus. The National Committee is composed of one delegate from every state. It collects all the money it can - oftentimes amounting to untold millions. It is in session only during the quadrennial campaigns, and it devotes itself to furnishing money and men to the different states, larger sums being given to the so called doubtful states...
General references: Dr. Snow, Papers of American Historical Association, IV, 323-8; Nation, XVI, 234-5; Lowell, Essays on Government, Introduction and No. 1; International Review, IV, 243-50; Speeches of Morrill, Cox and Thayer in Congressional Globe, 38th Congress, 2nd Session, pp. 420-4, 437-44, 446-8; Morrill, Cong. Record, 46th Cong. 1st Session...
...despatch from Hanover announces that at Tuesday's "session of the Dartmouth College Trustees it was voted to grant to the alumni the control of the athletics of the college." Dartmouth seems thus to be following the lead of the larger colleges in entrusting her athletic interests to her graduates. This plan of regulation is now looked upon as most productive of good results. It is well known that Yale's athletics are almost exclusively regulated by her graduates; while the graduate members of the Athletic Committee and the Graduate Advisory Boards have practical control of athletics here at Harvard...