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...Parliamentary rules are meant to facilitate public business. - (a) By preserving order. - (b) By protecting the rights of the majority as well as of the minority. - (c) By preventing waste of time. - (d) By enabling the legislative body to take up and dispatch business in order of its importance...
...curious fact was noticed during the Harvard-Yale game, according to a dispatch from New Haven to a New York paper: Just before Yale made her second touch down an engine on the Connecticut River road which stood on a siding near the grounds blew out an immense ring of smoke. It floated over the field a perfect O. As it sailed over the Harvard eleven Yale scored the touch down, and as McClung kicked the goal the ring gradually broke and spread into a distant Yover the Yale team...
Within the last two days some changes have been made in the Yale eleven, with direct reference to coping most effectually with Harvard. Winter has been transferred from right to left tackle, changing places with Wallis. This move, according to a dispatch from New Haven to the New York Herald, "was made with a view to the Harvard game for the purpose of putting Winter aginst Newell. Newell proved proved too much for Wallis last year and this year will be assigned to Winter, who is physically a much more powerful man." Hartwell has been taken from left...
...Cincinnati dispatch gives the following description of the uncovering of sixteen graves at Fort Ancient, the site of the greatest works of the prehistoric mound builders. The excavations here are under the direction of Professor F. W. Putnam, Curator of Peabody Muscum. Two thousand people were present at the opening of the graves...
...associated press dispatch from New Haven yesterday afternoon brought the starting announcement that "the Harvard faculty had decided to forbid the athletic teams to engage in any more intercollegiate sports; and would hereafter confine all athletics to interclass contests." The report is absolutely false...