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Saturday morning, in consequence of an announcement of Colonel Bancroft that cars would be run over the Cambridge lines, an enormous crowd of business men, students and strikers gathered on Harvard square; but the latter were in a decided minority. At nine o'clock a bell rang in the stables and a chocolate colored Bowdoin square car came swiftly out, escorted by eight mounted policemen and stopped in the square. There was a general stir on the part of the strikers but no aggressive action. The car was filled with students in a twinkling and went off amid the derision...
...Bancroft...
...Cambridge city government met last evening. In the board of aldermen Supt. Bancroft of the Cambridge horse railroad appeared, and made a statement that the directors of the company had unanimously voted to reduce the fare to all points from 6 to 5 cents...
...second '88 crew has stopped and the first crew is now rowing as follows: stroke, Baldwin; 7, Churchill (capt.); 6, Bancroft; 5, Appleton; 4, Holmes; 3, Carpenter; 2, Hervey; bow, Balch; 1st sub, Blossom, 2nd, Garrison...
Prof. Sloane of Princeton has an article on Bancroft in the January number of the Century, and Dr. McCosh's new book on "The Emotions" is expected soon...