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...President Eliot's report, what have been the results of the new method of admission examinations adopted by a vote of the faculty in 1886. The members of the last entering class have had unusual advantages in their admission examinations, in that it was their privilege to choose almost any combination they wished from a scheme of examinations including a wider range of subjects than has ever been given. Under the former scheme of admission examinations, the common method of entering was by presenting all the required elementary subjects, together with either French or German, and, of the advanced subjects...
...sports. They even hope to secure entries from Yale, and from Exeter, Andover, and other schools and colleges. They also hope to get a number of entries from men who have before not had a chance to enter any reputable sports, for strange as it may seem, this is almost the first meetings in Boston that has not been limited to particular clubs, although open meeting are held almost weekly in New York and other cities. The meeting is to be a ladies' day, for though there is to be sparring there is no danger that it will...
...first concert of the Kneisel Quartet was given in Sever last evening. The audience which moderately filled the room was composed almost entirely of Cambridge people-a fact which indicates how little our students appreciate this opportunity to hear music unsurpassed of its kind. Prof. Paine announced at the opening of the concert that Mr. Giese had been disabled by an accident and that his place would be filled by Mr. Loeffler. The other members of the quartet were Messrs. Kneisel, Roth, and Svecenski. The programme was as follows...
...night the alumni of Union College living at Albany, N. Y., held a largely-attended banquet and afterwards formed an alumni association. Union College has been growing rapidly under the administration of the new president, and in a few years will probably regain the position which a college of almost a century's growth should have...
During the past year, many new laurels have been won, in almost every branch of record athletics, by members of the various athletic clubs. The colleges have held their own at every contest in which they have been represented, and, although at the Mott Haven meeting last May comparatively few records were broken, the account of the work that was done during the summer, at home and abroad, by college athletes, will have a prominent place in the annals of athletic sports. The leading athletic clubs have divided themselves into two associations, the National Amateur Athletic Association...