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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-Gentlemen: I enclose a clipping from a recent number of the HERALD-CRIMSON. There is a serious error which I would like to have you correct. The Correspondence University has no connection whatever with Cornell University, other than the fact that a number of Cornell professors are members of the Cornell University faculty. The trustees of Cornell have known nothing about the matter. Special pains have been taken not to have it run for or against the interests of any educational institution. Although at the outset there are more professors from Cornell than from any other institution...
...record, says: "The Executive committee of the National Association will act wisely if at their next meeting they fix a standard of weight for the ball itself, even if they do not adopt a length-limit for the handle, which latter, however, they ought to do, in order that corrects comparisons may be instituted between the performances of different athletes. It would also be advisable for the committee to adopt a rule prohibiting the use of privately-owned heavy-weight implements at all athletic meetings held under the association laws, and making it compulsory upon the club or association holding...
...Wendell will correct the themes of the junior advanced section in Sever...
Several of the decisions of the referee were disputed by one or the other of the teams, and two in particular seemed rather peculiar, one by which Wesleyan scored her touchdown and one by which our men scored through a touch in goal. It seems nearer correct that the score should be two goals to nothing in our favor. Saxe and Beattys played very well for the home team, while Adams and Cabot's running, together with the steady play of Appleton gained the chief advantage for Harvard. Wesleyan has improved rapidly since her former game with us and before...
...eminent sculptor, Launt Thompson of New York, and is a most faithful representation of the distinguished surgeon. It outlines with such accuracy and precision the features of his face and the pose of his head that nothing is wanted, in the opinion of his friends, to make it a correct likeness." President Eliot accepted the gifts, after which the audience adjourned to the new building. A lunch was served between one and two o'clock. The exercises in the new building were opened by prayer by Dr. A. P. Peabody, after which the building was dedicated by speeches from President...