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...party go for nearly half fare; but when several car-loads of Harvard students go to the Regatta at Springfield, full fare both ways is charged. Would it be asking too much of the next Regatta Committee to endeavor to make such arrangements with the railroads as to lighten somewhat the attack on the already depleted student pocket...
...that he received last year the degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard, and therefore he was in this point, if not in public station, ahead of President Hayes, and after communicating the interesting news that the present administration intended to smooth the path of the scholar in politics somewhat, paid the following tribute to Professor Lowell...
...last it is settled that the Seniors are to have a Class Day. The Corporation, taking the matter out of the hands of the Faculty as well as the Class itself, have put an end to petty disputes, and a programme (of a somewhat mongrel nature, to be sure) has been arranged. The morning is to be occupied with a single event, interesting only to those immediately concerned, - the breakfast given by Mr. Lowell to the graduating class. The outside world will not be expected to make themselves visible until three in the afternoon. At that hour the favored fair...
...from Portland, Oregon, is a publication of the most startling interest, and because we only notice two articles in its last issue, it must not be supposed that the others are unworthy our attention. The first is a violent attack on Darwinism, in which the train of argument is somewhat as follows: "Darwin denies the Biblical theory of the Creation, and tells us instead that men are descended from monkeys; but who do the monkeys spring from?" Can the Archangel mean to prove that the Biblical and Darwinian theories are compatible, and that Adam and Eve were monkeys? This article...
...Manager of Beacon Park has kindly given permission to all who desire to train, to make use of the track at the Park at any time they may wish to do so; and though the distance of the grounds from Cambridge is somewhat inconvenient, we sincerely hope that those who intend to enter the contest will not omit training on this account; for after all it is only a walk of twenty minutes...