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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This evening the University fencing team will leave for New York to take part in the preliminaries of the Intercollegiate Fencing Tournament tomorrow. To forecast the results is almost impossible. The work of all the teams has been steadily improving. Early in the season the University team was defeated, not very decisively, by Annapolis and Pennsylvania, but since then Columbia, Bowdoin, and Williams have been defeated. Cornell and Columbia have strong teams. As fencing is a requirement at West Point, it has been decided that the West Point team should not compete. The University team should play a prominent part...
...following Commencement at Yale. Within a single week Class Day at Yale comes on Monday, Class Day at Harvard on Tuesday, Commencement at Yale on Wednesday, Commencement at Harvard on Thursday. The friends and graduates of Yale regarded a game of baseball at New Haven on Tuesday as almost essential to graduation week; the friends and graduates of Harvard regarded a game at Cambridge in close connection with Class Day, but not on that day, as almost essential to the festivities of the season. Neither college might fitly have the game in its own territory on its own Commencement...
...Massachusetts avenue, this evening at 8 o'clock. It had been planned to have an claborate program for laying the cornerstone, President Eliot being among the proposed speakers. President Eliot, however, feeling indisposed, has been obliged to decline the invitation to address the club; so the program will be almost entirely impromptu. The Alumni Chorus and an orchestra will render a musical program...
Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 gave an informal talk in the Union last evening on some of the experiences of his career, dwelling chiefly upon his army life during the Civil War In an almost impersonal manner, Major Higginson talked to Harvard men as a Harvard man. He said: "I am going to give you some of my experiences in life, and if there is any moral to be drawn from them, I hope you will draw...
...some it may seem that various fanciful tales that appear almost daily in many local newspapers constitute the most extreme form of misrepresenting Harvard in the public press; but they should see papers from remote parts of the country if they would learn how distorted and perverted yellow news may become after travelling a few thousand miles. If one were to make a business of scrutinizing generally the press of the country for Harvard news, one would no longer wonder why so many misconceptions are rife concerning the life and students of the University...