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...cannot remember a year when the class football series was brought to a close by playing off a tie game. It was not so many years ago that if one of the elevens found difficulty in forging ahead at the end of the allotted time, volunteers from the side lines would appear in sufficient numbers to warrant a score by one of the teams and it was usually the team that had the most friends among the spectators that secured the victory. This was perhaps a relic of the ancient by-gone days when in no less of an affair...
...trustees. In 1896, he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention; two years later he ran for lieutenant-governor of New York on the Independent or Citizens' Union ticket. Mr. Osborne was twice elected mayor of Auburn, his home town, in 1902 and again in 1904. Two years ago he was chosen as delegate to the State Democratic Convention. Since June, 1907, he has served as a member of the Public Utilities Commission in New York...
President Eliot has just written a book on "University Administration," which was published last Friday. Its contents consist of a summary of the six lectures which he delivered on this subject in the course founded two years ago by N. W. Barris of Chicago. It contains the most complete grouping of the principles that have governed his administration for the past forty years. The subjects treated in this book are as follows: The University Trustees, the University Faculty, the elective system, methods of instruction, alumni influence, social organization, general administration, the president...
...enterprising policy of the track management in securing an experienced coach for the cross-country team has been amply rewarded. There seemed to be very little hope for the team after being badly beaten a week or two ago by the Technology runners, but Shrubb has proved his efficiency as a coach of long distance runners by turning out a team to defeat Yale, and interest in cross-country running will benefit by it. Things that are worth doing at all are worth doing well and if Harvard is to have a cross-country team, every effort, consistent with...
...drama, written by E. B. Sheldon '08, last year's president of the Dramatic Club, will be given by Mrs. Fiske and her company at Providence this evening. The play, which tells the story of a member of the Salvation Army, was accepted by Mrs. Fiske, several months ago. The leading part, taken by Mrs. Fiske, is that of a drudge in a saloon on the Bowery, upon which, on Christmas night, the curtain rises. As usual in her mounting of a play, Mrs. Fiske has striven to make setting and action atmospheric...