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...Grove, was occupied by some Union batteries which held the enemy in check while the crowd of fugitives from Howard's corps rushed through the line of guns to the rear. Major Huntington was himself present and in command of these batteries, and it was due to their gallant stand that the army was not totally demoralized on that day. This check at Hazel Grove compelled the confederates to wait till it was too dark for further advance that evening...
...following, as a whole, then, are the main objections to the rules as they stand...
...boat club has had a crew in training for several months to row four-mile races with Yale and with Columbia; if these resolutions are to be enforced as they stand, the whole course of training will have to be changed, thus impairing our chances of victory; unless Yale agrees to the rules, the prime purpose for which the crew is in training will have to be abandoned, as the race cannot be rowed. In case the race with Yale is abandoned, it is believed that the race with Columbia will not cause sufficient interest to keep the crew together...
Finally, this rule, if allowed to stand, would tend to defeat one of the very purposes or which those who drew it up are supposed to be stiving-the placing of all athletic contests between the various colleges on a footing as nearly equal as possible. For the larger and richer colleges could afford to pay more for athletic instructors, and would consequently be able to get better men, than the smaller and poorer colleges...
...Boston letter to the Chicago Tribune gives the following bright description of Dr. Holmes and the Medical Students. It says: "The most popular man in the Cedical School is Dr. Oliver wendell Holmes, though he is no longer an active member of the faculty. The genial "autocrat" cannot stand entirely aloof from his first love, and almost every month he pays a visit to the doctor mill on the Back Bay. Some of the younger professors think that Dr. Holmes is pretty far behind the times-"an old fogy, you know" but the boys have no thought for them when...