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Hereafter English 3 and 4 will alternate. A new course in elocution to count as a half-course will be given. In the French department there will probably be some important changes. Two new half-courses will be added, which, with French 4, will cover the whole range of French literature. These will probably be taken by Prof. Bocher. Mr. Sheldon also has a new course on old French and Provencal Philology. corresponding with German 8, with which it alternates. The Italian and Spanish departments are still in a state of uncertainty...
...knowledge, two instructors last year and one this year, have distinctly told honor men that only the regular course these would be required for substitution for forensics, that no more time and no more original work should be given to the theses, simply because they were to count for forensics...
RUNNING HIGH KICK.Cary, '86; Kimball, '86; Fessenden, '86; Soren, '83, and Fogg, '85, were entered. This event was introduced at Harvard for the first time last year, when Mr. Soren kicked a height of 8 feet, 4 inches. This does not count as a record, however, as the kicking was made from a mattress. The contest soon narrowed down to Soren and Fessenden. Soren won with a jump of 8 feet, 8 1/2 inches...
Provision was also made in case of short-handed games. It will be remembered that a good deal of unfavorable comment was made last fall because the New York Lacrosse Club came on here with only seven men. It was decided that no game should count unless played by at least nine men on a side, and this only in case of unavoidable circumstances. Rules were adopted for supplying places made vacant by the removal of players injured during the game. It is to be hoped that these rules will be effectual in preventing any abuses from creeping into...
...fear there will be another deficit at the end of this year. Let me urge the members of the freshman class in particular to make their subscriptions as large as possible. In estimating the amounts to be contributed by the various classes it has been the custom hitherto to count upon thirty-three and one-third per cent of the total amount from the freshman class, but unless the members of '86 contribute more freely than they have done thus far this year, they will fall far below the estimate...