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...following Harvard men are entered for the championship games of the Amateur Athletic Union at Mechanics hall Saturday afternoon and evening: For putting 24-pound shot-W. H. Shea, '92; three standing broad jumps-C. H. Bean, '91, O. W. Shead, '93; one thousand yard run-A. M. White, '92, W. C. Downs, '90, G. R. Fearing, '93; seventy-five-yard dash-J. P. Lee, '91, J. S. Cook, '92, H. M. Sternburgh, L. S. S., W. F. Baker, '93, E. C. Moen, '91, J. H. Alward, L. S., A. H. Green, '92, O. K. Hawes, '92; six-hundred-yard...
...Greek theatre furnishes contrasts, not parallels, to that of modern times. The Greeks produced an audience of thirty thousand to our possible three thousand, they sat in the open air, they went to theatre much as we go to church, and the actors wore masks, and had no harmony in singing. Greek theatre-going was for only three days, at the Dionysiac festival. The people at this time creased in holiday attire; the taverns were thrown open, bowls of free wine were everywhere and it was considered a solemn duty to get intoxicated. The streets were filled with mountebanks...
...remind freshmen of this, for the expenses of both of these organizations are comparatively small and may in part be defrayed by the proceeds of match games. But it is different with the crew, for, though conducted on the most economical plan, a crew costs upwards of two thousand dollars, and all of this must be raised by subscriptions from freshmen alone. Two thousand dollars may seem at first though too large an amount of money to spend for such a purpose, but, if any man will remember that a shell and oars cost six hundred dollars, board at training...
...rebellion resulting from an abusive system of taxation is of course our colonial revolution, and in France the unendurable taxes from the time of Louis the fourteenth to the year 1789 forced the people to such a pitch of frenzy that the heroes they committed seem almost justified. Six thousand nobles and gentry fell by the guillotine, and yet when one considers the multitudes that these nobles had been starving to death by taxation for a thousand years, the clemency that the masses showed in their hour of triumph and vengeance seems almost wonderful...
...Saturday's issue it was stated that the interest on the Aid Fund would amount to only ten thousand dollars. This was an error. The interest on the aid fund for 1890-91, will amount to seventy thousand dollars...