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...annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Base-ball Association, which includes Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Amherst, Brown and Williams, will be held at the Massasoit House, Springfield, next Friday. The resignations of Princeton and Harvard will be submitted and Yale will probably follow suit. The smaller colleges intend to incorporate Dartmouth and Columbia with their league if they can get them. Dartmouth will doubtless join them, but Columbia has already signified her intention to go with Princeton and Harvard. There will probably be no news in the matter until the meeting Friday, when the colleges withdrawing will immediately decide upon the constitution...
...members of Theta Delta Phi, to which fraternity Edward F Dillon of Dartmouth College, a victim of the railroad accident, belonged, and delegations from his class and the college at large, attended Dillon's funeral at Springfield, Vt., yesterday...
...accepted, the old "Oneida" was brought into requisition, eight men, who had never rowed together but a half-dozen times before, were picked out to represent Harvard. The race took place on August 3. The "Oneida" was victorious both in this and in the next race which occurred at Springfield in 1855. The following year, after the "Oneida" had done Harvard good service both as a pleasure and a racing boat, the old eight-oared barge was sold to Dartmouth where she was shortly after washed over a dam and lost. A picture of her may be still seen...
Yesterday's Springfield Republican says: "The stockholders of the Worcester and Hudson railroad met at the State house in Boston yesterday afternoon and organized. This road is 18 miles long, and its estimated cost is $800,000, of which nearly $600,000 is guaranteed by parties in Boston, New York and the West. It is to make an additional line from Boston to Worcester by connecting at Hudson with the Central Massachusetts and Fitchburg railroads, insures a new line from Boston to Hartford and shortens the distance many miles between Boston and New York. The road follows the Boston...
...Trinity Tablet proposes that the editors of all college papers arrange a banquet at Springfield...