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Entries for the spring handicap track games, which will be held on Soldiers Field on Friday, April 16, may now be made in the blue-book on the bulletin board in the Locker Building. There will be 13 events, and cups will be awarded the winners of first and second places. Only those will be allowed to compete who have passed the strength test since January 1, and who are not on probation...
Entries for the Leiter Cup baseball series will close on Friday, April 16, at 6 o'clock. Blue-books have been placed at Leavitt & Peirce's, in which all teams and individual players must enter. The names of at least twelve bona fide players and the captain must be given with each team entry. Individual players will be assigned to a team by the manager by signifying what positions they wish to play. The series will be started immediately after the spring recess and for this reason entries should be made at once...
...official announcement from Secretary Knox of the State Department has confirmed the report that President Eliot has definitely declined the tender of the ambassadorship to the Court of St. James made to him at an interview with President Taft in the Blue Room of the White House on Wednesday. It is the belief of Secretary Knox and Senator Lodge that President Eliot's declination is final, and that he cannot be induced to change his mind. He showed that he was retiring from the presidency of Harvard in order to relieve himself of responsible duties and that, although the honor...
Washington, D. C., April 1, 1909.--As a result of the interview between President Eliot and President Taft in the Blue Room of the White House yesterday, no official decision has been made by President Eliot either in acceptance or refusal of the ambassadorship to the Court of St. James. It is ascertained, however, from sources close to President Taft that President Eliot told Mr. Taft at the time the offer was made that he was disposed to refuse it, inasmuch as he was retiring from the Presidency of Harvard in order to relieve himself of responsible duties. He stated...
Washington, D. C., March 31, 1909.--At the request of President Taft, President Eliot called at the White House this morning and the two conferred in the Blue Room. It is understood that the Embassy to the Court of St. James was officially tendered to President Eliot and that he was given time to consider it. The expectation is that he will accept the post and will not enter upon the duties before October, for the official change at London is not to be made until then, and possibly not until later. Both men refused to discuss what took place...