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...HILLS.AT a recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C. it was decided that the Class Races should be held, on the 25th inst. A meeting of the Club is soon to be called, - probably on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, - when business of importance is to be transacted...
...this theatre Mr. Edwin Booth has been playing a round of standard parts during the week. The remembrance of most of his impersonations must be still fresh, as it is only two years since his last visit. "The Merchant of Venice," however, was not produced at that time, and his appearance in it this week has given an opportunity for seeing his performance of the less familiar part of Shylock...
...first, and we congratulate her, not only on having the pluck and the muscle to win the best and most closely contested race in the annals of college boating, the Freshman race, and the single-scull race, but also the good fortune to win all three in the same week. It must have been a proud moment for Captain Cook, and deservedly so, when his crew rested on their oars after that last struggle for victory...
...running race for the Bennett cup, a novelty in intercollegiate sports, took place on Wednesday of the Regatta week. Unexpectedly as the notice was given, men from five different colleges entered their names. Of these only three answered the call on the racing day, - Phillips, of Cornell; Bowie, of McGill College, Canada; Benton, of Amherst. They drew 1st, 2d, and 3d positions, respectively. The race was for two miles, but the first excited little interest. The first half-mile Benton led, with Phillips second, having passed Bowie just before crossing the line. The end of the next quarter Bowie struck...
...Record is unusually interesting to us this week, expressing as it does the feeling at Yale in relation to the recent base-ball contest. We cannot help inferring that so great was the confidence in Nevins's pitching, that certain members of the Yale Nine became careless about practising. If this was so, the poor playing of the Nine is readily accounted for. The whole tone of the Record's remarks is highly complimentary and gratifying to Harvard...