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...Cambridge High and Latin School teams on Jarvis field yesterday afternoon. Until the last inning the freshmen fielded very cleanly, but their whole play was characterized by an utter lack of the snap which is essential for a winning nine. The batting was weak and the base-running weaker. Almost all the runners slid bases feet first, and none of them were half quick enough. The coaching, moreover, was miserable. In the field the men interfered with each other, and the wonder was that more errors were not made. The score...
...lecture yesterday Prof. Lyon showed the close relationship between the first eleven chapters in Genesis and similar narratives in the Babylonian-Assyrian literature. In some cases, as the Deluge, the cuneiform account is almost completely recovered; in others. owing to the terrible fate that befell Assyrian libraries, only small fragments have yet been found. The use to which the Hebrews put this material constitutes the great superiority in the Hebrew versions. The writer of Genesis replaced polytheism by monotheism. Some things he left out, and retained only echoes of other portions. Thus, we find in Genesis a serpent which...
Yale's long delay in answering the challenge of the Cycling Association had almost discouraged all hope of her accepting. The letter received yesterday, though rather ambiguous, shows that the matter is receiving attention, and will, we hope, be satisfactorily arranged. Harvard left "choice of course, distance, number of men, and date" to Yale. If Yale's choice is a two mile race between teams of three men, at the Elm City Driving Park, on June 9, Harvard will, according to the terms of the challenge, be glad to accept. The letter from the Yale Athletic Association does not appear...
...during the four years of his college life. The varying percentages of marks in the five grades show a striking and gratifying tendency toward more earnest work in each succeeding year. In the Freshman year less than 16 per cent, of the marks assigned to '89 reached A, while almost 3 per cent. fell into grade E. A steady increase in the A's brings the per cent. to more than 22 in the Senior year, The E's, on the other hand, diminished by almost one-half in the sophomore year, and again in the Junior year by more...
Boston Museum.Although All the "Comforts of Home" has been running almost two months, its pleasant humor and vivaciousness still continue to please merous people, and the audiences which laugh with genial Jack Mason are as large as ever...