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Harvard Team.Captain Arthur H. Brewer '96, of Boston, right end, is a graduate of Hopkinson's School, where he played end on the champion interscholastic eleven. He was end on his freshman team and played left end on the 'varsity eleven during a greater part of the first game with Pennsylvania. Last year he was right end, where he did remarkable work. He also rowed on his class crew his sophomore year. Owing to his unusually hard duties as captain, he has not been quite up to his usual form this year. Age 20, height 5 ft. 11 in., weight...
...Wrenn '96, last year's tennis champion, beat R. T. Parke '98, the winner of the fall tournament, yesterday in the match for the championship of the University...
...Catholic Church's view of liberty is singularly inconsistent. In England and America it stands forward as the champion of liberty. In Spain, Austria, and Belgium, where the Catholic Church has paramount authority, liberty does not exist. The Catholic Church claims, too, that it has always been the ideal of truth and honesty. As a matter of fact the reverse is the case. The Church now denies the concessions it made on being allowed to have freedom of worship in England in 1825. It openly admits the imposition of "pious frauds," and claims that faith need not be kept with...
...strong players can play limp chess if they are left without strenuous competition. The advantage usually gained by the men that enter these tournaments is that combat between stranger styles that unfailingly leads to good chess at New York and good chess in the University. The position of sophomore champion ('98 and '99) lies now open, besides the University championship and the four guardships. If it must be that our chess spirit shall slacken in this crisis, let it not break...
...work of the lacrosse squad at present consists of practice in catching and passing the ball, followed by a short game. Horn, who played on the champion team that represented the University in '89 has charge of the candidates. No games have been arranged for this fall but several are under consideration...