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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Christian Association began the work of the year by opening on last Friday morning a Bureau of Information. The rooms of the association in Holden Chapel have been made bright and comfortable and provided generously with all the current periodicals and New York, Boston and Chicago daily papers. Members of the association are present during the larger part of the day to give any information possible to the men just entering the University and to make the early days of their university life easy and comfortable...
...HAVEN, Sept. 21, 1895. The Yale squad has had four days of preliminary training. Captain Thorne appeared here last Tuesday, and within the next two days 10 candidates for places behind the line had reported for work. On Thursday the linemen began to come and now there are 20 here. The candidates include the few men left from last year's team, most of the members of last year's freshman eleven, but no new men. They will not be given a chance till after college opens next week Thursday...
...regular fall practice began on Soldiers field last Monday afternoon when thirty-three candidates for the elven presented themselves. Since the new men have joined the squad daily that there are now about forty-five candidates for the team. On Tuesday the candidates for positions behind the line practiced in the morning while the line men came out in the afternoon. The same division was followed on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Saturday the men were all to practice together in the morning, but on account of the excessive heat they were sent on a run of three miles instead...
John Richards Bullard, Jr., '96, of Dedham, captain and stroke, prepared for college at the English High School and at Hopkinson's School. He was unable to row during his freshman year, but made the 'varsity the following spring, rowing at number 2. He began the season this year at bow, but was changed to stroke soon after the crew got on the water...
Yesterday afternoon there began in the University Museum a public exhibition of birds that is sure to attract much attention and considerable favorable comment. It is a collection of some 250 specimens collected and mounted by Mr. W. E. D. Scott. The birds were arranged in 50 neat cases about one of the rooms. Mr. Scott was in attendance to explain the purposes of the exhibition and the philosophy of the arrangements...