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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...four classes in college, '91 has the fewest representatives among the editors of this paper. We should be glad to welcome a number of new editors, especially from the sophomore class. There is rooms for three or four sophomores besides those we already have. Another editor from '90 would also be welcomed. We need not say that candidates are accepted strictly according to merit. The requisites are chiefly ability to gather college news and to print it in as attractive and as accurate a manner as the difficult circumstances under which a college daily is conducted will allow. We trust...
...final round of the chess tournament has been completed and has proved a surprisingly close contest among the three leading players. F. M. Brown, '90, S. W. Sturgis, '90, and F. M. Nicolls, '92, were all tied for first place with five games won, one lost, and one drawn. They then played a special series, but this, as before, resulted in a tie, for Sturgis beat Brown, Nicolls beat Sturgis, and Brown beat Nicolls. The scores of the other players are as follows: Webster won 5, lost 2; Chamberlin won 3, lost 4; Black won 2, lost 5; Taussig...
President Eliot has said that the work of a Harvard student ought to begin promptly at nine o'clock in the morning. Since compulsory prayers were abolished, however, the tendency has become marked among a large number of students to delay the commencement of the work of the day until long after nine. The habit of tardiness has taken a strong hold especially upon those who have lectures during the first hour and has proved such a source of annoyance to several of the professors as to cause them to adopt the practice of locking the doors of the lecture...
...been that more striking and valuable photographs of those parts of the sun have been obtained than ever before. It seems almost probable that because of the important knowledge which must be gained by a close study of these photographs, the eclipse of 1889 will be looked upon, among men devoted to the study of practical astronomy, as marking an epoch in the history of solar physics. The great thirteen-inch Boyden telescope, with a lens specially corrected for photographic work, was successfully operated in securing eight large-scale pictures of the sun's corona, and these appear certain...
...candidates for the position of coxswain of the University crew met Tuesday. Among those who will try for the seat are W. J. Farquhar, '91, coxswain of his class crew; J. Amory, '92, and H. F. Gould...