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...celebration to commemorate the crew and baseball victories of last June which was postponed from Friday on account of rain will be held tonight. It should be the aim of every man who possibly can, to join the procession which will be formed at 7.30 p. m. in front of University Hall. Headed by the band, the crews and the nine, the crowd will march around the Yard to the homes of President Eliot and Professor Hollis, who will respond; and then to Soldiers Field, where a huge bonfire has been prepared. As the committee in charge of the celebration...
...preliminary work, which was the same as on Thursday, was held in the Carey building on account of the rain. For the rudimentary portion of the practice, the cage has ample space, and even permits low punting. Yesterday, however, Lewis and Burden continued the lessons in breaking through, which have formed in important part of the work of the last few days. Meanwhile, Coach Dibblee gave the backs some of the finer points of their positions in connection with starting and interfering...
...building of the Shooting House and traps has been postponed on account of the making of the speedway. Within two weeks, however, the new quarters, some two hundred yards east of the old location, will be ready for occupancy...
...connected with Harvard, as well as to strangers, the new and thoroughly revised "Official Guide to Harvard University," will doubtless prove very useful on account of its accuracy and completeness. Mr. W. G. Brown, Deputy Keeper of University Records, who edited the Guide for the Memorial Society, has re-written entirely the first edition which was prepared and published in August, 1898 for the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The present edition, however, contains many additional illustrations. To the account of the founding of the University and its present departments, an historical sketch...
...events at the close of the last academic year. In addition to a full report of the Commencement proceedings, the Phi Beta Kappa oration delivered by C. J. Bonaparte '71 entitled "Our National Dangers, Real and Unreal" is printed complete. "Town and Gown in Old Times" is an account of incidents in student life at Cambridge over fifty years ago, and "From a Graduates' Window" is an unsigned comment on indiscriminate Class Day cheering in which the abolition of the "three long Harvard's is urged. Dr. Darling contributes a summary of an exhaustive report on his investigations...