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...permanent form. It includes nineteen old members and six new men, and is probably the most advanced of the three clubs. By adding the drum, violin, etc., it has developed an orchestral form for seven or eight parts. The Banjo Club has fourteen out of twenty former members, and sixteen candidates are now trying for the vacancies. Last year the club was not up to its usual standard, but this year it has an excellent chance for improvement. The Glee Club has as yet done very little rehearsing, for the reason that it is practically intact...
...Pickering the exhibit of the Observatory and its branches has been selected and set up as it is to appear at the Paris Exposition. One hundred and four square feet of wall space have been reserved in the United States section for the exhibit, which will consist of sixteen transparencies from original plates taken at Cambridge and Arequipa, three wing frames holding about two hundred pictures of star clusters and planets, and twenty wall pictures of work done at observatories. The exhibits are arranged in order to a height of thirteen feet...
...Royal Phelps Carroll cup, for single sculling, which has been lost for over ten years, is now known to be in the possession of Finlay '91, who won it last. Sixteen years ago the cup was given by Royal Phelps Carroll and J. E. Thayer, both members of the class of '85, under the following conditions: "It shall be a perpetual challenge cup, to be held one year and to be open to all members of the University. In the event of the holder's leaving College, the cup shall be returned to the boat club...
...last year. Five hundred and eighty of these are college graduates. Two hundred and sixty-two men are from Harvard and three hundred and eighteen from the other colleges of which the most important are: Yale with sixty-nine men, Dartmouth with twenty-three, Brown with nineteen, Amherst with sixteen, Princeton with twelve and Williams with...
Doctor Ellis was born in Boston in 1826. He entered Harvard at sixteen and graduated in the class of '46. He graduated from the Medical School in 1849, and, as a practitioner, his career was brilliant. He was associated with the faculty of the Medical School and for many years was its dean...