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...four years since Harvard won both games of the series. The chance is now offered Ninety-three, by hard and earnest work, to win the next game from their opponents. We hope the freshmen appreciate the task before them, for it is just this earnestness and determination which the college is expecting from Captain Frothingham...
...season. Changes in the make-up of the team have necessarily been frequent, and there can be no complaint, as far as the university nine is concerned, that every candidate has been given a fair chance. The material this year has been unusually abundant, and for that reason the task of selecting the proper players has been a more than ordinarily hard one. The nine as present constituted, however, is the strongest possible one, and it deserves a much more hearty support from the college than it has yet received. The number of spectators at each game has been limited...
...Knox-College and afterwards studied at the Yale Divinity School. From Yale he came to the Harvard Divinity School and then went to Gottenberg. Upon his return he became interested in the ethical work of Professor Adler, of New York and decided that this must be his life task...
...attendance at the meeting of the Co-operative society last evening is any sign, the members intend to place implicit confidence in the new board of directors. These officers will have before them a task which will require great activity and earnest work, if they undertake to correct the abuses we have already called attention to. The society appears to have been badly managed and to be sadly in need of reform. With a suitable superintendent, and a board of officers elected especially for the purpose. great improvements ought to be made in the coming year...
...Jefferson Physical Laboratory. He said that nothing seems simpler to us than forming words and indicating sounds by letters but that the analysis of even the shortest words is hard to make. Until lately it has been universally thought that the formation of an alphabet was a task beyond human power to perform, and the Talmudic Jews claimed that the letters were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, by God. It is only in the last part of the present century that the alphabet has been found to be as much human as any other part of the languages. There...