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...tennis championship of Massachusetts yesterday afternoon at the Longwood Cricket Club, winning by the decisive score of 6-3, 6-0, 6-3. Niles came through the tournament with the greatest ease, losing but 16 games in six matches. Against Seaver, as against all his other opponents, he played almost faultless tennis and was not in the least pushed to win. His serve, falling deep in first one corner of the court and then the other, and with a high-bouncing twist, proved almost impossible for Seaver to handle, while his net game was brilliantly sharp and severe. From...
...were it not for President Eliot's article, the present number would suffer from its "scrap-book" nature. It is, of course, important that many of these short sketches should be preserved in the Graduates' Magazine; but it is unfortunate that a number should be composed almost wholly of such things at a time when the rapid change of conditions has brought up a quantity of important questions which demand serious and extended discussion. Perhaps it is enough to say that most of the articles in the present number would not have been at all out of place...
...aeroplane constructed by the Harvard Aeronautical Society is to undergo the test of its success or failure during the present week. For the past two months the machine has been under construction and has finally been completed in the face of almost insurmountable obstacles. The limited nature of the society's resources has proved a most serious restraint upon the constructors. The entire cost has been made to come well below $300, an astonishingly small sum in comparison with the prices demanded by the companies regularly engaged in the manufacture of aeroplanes. Financial embarrassment caused one of the firms engaged...
...importance. To require 20 or more hours work from a man broadly interested in American history in preparing a thesis upon "veritable instances of negro dialect in slavery times" is an imposition; and when the desired references are to books of such historical value as "Uncle Remus" it becomes almost ludicrous. To require from a serious student of the broad facts of our history an account of the best anti-slavery poem he can find is to force him to spend a large amount of time and effort in looking up a subject of so slight historical importance that...
...change in the order of the University crew yesterday comes as a great surprise to almost the entire undergraduate body. The substitution of a new stroke is always a step of the greatest significance and danger, as it necessarily involves the whole crew's adjusting itself to a new rhythm. The shift yesterday appears more radical, when it is considered that it involves every seat in the boat except bow and 4, while that last spring affected only stroke...