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...service, for they will be very useful in serving, cutting and volleying. The "triangle" racket is the latest invention, and it will probably have a large sale with players of all classes, with some on account of its real usefulness, and with others on account of its exceedingly ugly shape. The top is flat and very wide so as to admit of quite a space wherein to return volleyed balls, and the curse at the top is very rightly done away with, as there was no use for it. The throat of the racket is also very wide...
...senior crew not until after the semis. So it seems to be generally recognized that it is useless for experienced men to go into training before Christmas, but with freshmen the case is different. It may be considered an open question whether a freshman crew can be got into shape in time by commencing after Christmas. Again, a long course of training tends, especially among new men, to weed out all who do not take interest in their work, and those who are apt to be slack in observing training rules. So it will readily be seen that there...
...Harvard is not able to undertake this charge under the present circumstances, the managers desire that their school shall be no additional burden. To bring about this result and to further the general interests of the organization, the friends of female education are called upon for assistance in the shape of money...
...coming meeting of the Inter-Collegiate Base-Ball Association will be one of especial importance, as on its decision will depend the longer continuance of the association in its present shape. A new aspect is put upon affairs by the announcement that Amherst will under no circumstances remain in the association after the present year. Whether this will have any influence on the action of the convention remains to be seen. It looks now as if it would make Dartmouth's hold on her present position even more uncertain than at present, for now that Amherst is no longer...
...subject of remark that students seldom appreciate the advantages offered to them in the shape of lectures and concerts. This is especially the case with the series of chamber concerts that are being given in Sever Hall. The fourth one of the series to be given this evening presents an unusually fine programme, and one that calls for a large attendance. We hope that the students will not allow these concerts, which have been such an artistic success, to fail from a financial point of view...