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Cambridge University in England, is, so far as the writer has been able to ascertain, the only college which has ever successfully supported a canoe club. With the advent of the Harvard Canoe Club, it is to be hoped that an enthusiasm may be created which will result in raising this sport to its proper place in the estimation of American college men. Its advantages are so apparent, and the pleasure and profit to be derived from its pursuit is so obvious that description is useless. Suffice is it to say that no one who has once experienced the fascinations...
Dear Sir :-Yours of March 24th was duly received, and I should have replied sooner, but have waited to ascertain what days the university would use Jarvis field, and I wished to learn what the class thought in reference to our game with you. I have spoken with Loud, captain of our team, and we have decided that, if possible, we had better arrange the games by correspondence, as the expense of meeting you at Springfield would be considerable, and it seemed hardly necessary to do so. I am sorry that I have to ask you to play the first...
...daily press, that the friends of "voluntary chapel" at Harvard, take pains, before returning their nominees for overseers to the committee, to satisfy themselves by private inquiry that their preferred candidates are favorable to the reform in question. This gentleman states in addition, that he is working to ascertain the opinions of all the candidates, and hopes to make them known to the public. This suggestion seems to us quite opportune. With such a large majority of the members of the board of overseers in favor of compulsory prayers, it will take some years, at least, to change the complexion...
...thorough and systematic canvass of the college to ascertain the presidential preferences of the students will be undertaken immediately after the April recess, under the management of the Harvard Union. The four undergraduate classes, the special and scientific students, the Divinity School, and the Law School will all be canvassed, and each student will be asked his first and second choice for a presidential candidate. A score of canvassers have already been appointed and the work will be completed and the result announced at the meeting of the Union on April 24. The officers of the Union are determined...
...investigation in New York on Tuesday evening to ascertain whether L. E. Meyers is, or is not an amateur, considerable damaging testimony was given, and it was clearly demonstrated that the runner was not a pure amateur...