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Pole vault.- P. R. Frothingham, '86: J. W. Dudley, '87; T. C. Craig, '87; H. Edwards, '88; N. E. Coffin...
...debate of the Harvard Union last evening was fairly well attended in spite of the inclement weather. The disputants of the evening, Messrs. Root and Currier and Messrs. Coffin and Rich for the affirmative and negative acquitted themselves well and were supported by several speakers from the floor...
...Harvard Union will tonight debate the question "That the United States should place greater restrictions on immigration from Europe." Principal disputants, for the affirmative, Messrs. Root, '85 and W. L. Currier, '87; for the negative, Messrs. Coffin, '85, and Rich...
...Merriam, '86, for the negative. Messrs. E. T. Sanford. '85, and W. B. Scofield, '87, then closed the regular debate for the affirmative and negative respectively. When the debate was opened to the house, some of the best speakers in college took the floor. Among them, Currier, '87, Coffin, '85, and Roundy, '85, spoke for the negative; and Fraser, '86, Hansen, '85, Hobson, '86, Rich, '87, Hoar, L. S., Saunders, '84, and Jennings, '86, for the affirmative. The majority of the audience as well as speakers, were on the side of the negative, as all the votes showed. Messrs. Hoar...
...cypher. Consequently he was beginning to have visions of infernal machines and was scraping together in his memory the various Irish agitators of whom he had expressed an unfavorable opinion, for the purpose of having them bound over to keep the peace; also, he was about to order a coffin immediately, in which to keep the pieces when the machine went off. The student, when the man had got far enough along in his story to propose a visit to the nearest life insurance office, remarked that there was only one explanation for the curious phenomenon - his chum kept...