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...model of the statue of John Harvard, to be placed in the peak of the Delta at Cambridge, is finished. It is necessarily ideal, as no pictures or busts of the subject remain. [Gazette...
...desire to call especial attention to the notice of the president of the boat club printed in another column, the subject of which is the approaching complimentary dinner to the university crew. There ought to be no need of urging the students to be present on this occasion and thus show their appreciation of the crew's splendid work last year. But the dinner last fall was such a fiasco and the recent meeting was so poorly attended that it shows the need of an earnest appeal to prevent the coming dinner from being a failure...
...following clipping, taken from the editorial columns of the Detroit Evening Journal can not fail to be of interest as an apt illustration of the insane ideas held by many on the subject of college athletics. The elegant language and rational sentiments contained in this extract are particularly noticeable, and cause the feeling of entertainment which arises at first sight, to deepen into the most heart-felt pity for the unfortunate perpetrators...
...meeting of representatives of American colleges, to consider the subject of athletic sports, soon to take place, is very timely. It will be held on the heels of the disaster at Harvard, where unrestrained enthusiasm over a boat race caused a crowded platform to give way, probably with fatal results to some. The accident will serve to emphasize the importance of placing some regulation and restraint upon college sports. Probably the best way this could be done would be to make athletic training a part of the curriculum. If a student were compelled to blister his hands with a pair...
...curious discoveries in regard to the motions and gait of horses and other animals. His curious results have been attained by his cleverness in adapting the process of instantaneous photography to the ends he aimed at. Last year there was a most interesting article in the Century on this subject with many illustrations from Mr. Muybridge's photographs. Since then Mr. Muybridge has published a book containing the results of his discoveries...