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...report published in yesterday's issue of the CRIMSON stating that Harvard's representative, Mr. Sears, had won the championship in singles in the tennis tournament, although premature, was nevertheless destined to prove true. The error was, that in reading the hurried and hasty dispatch received by the CRIMSON late night before last, the fact that Columbia's representative had yet to play Mr. Sears, was entirely overlooked. But "all's well that ends well" and the thanks and congratulations of the college are due Mr. Sears for his splendid work at New Haven...
...They join the pirates, and after being duly sworn in, concoct a plan of escape. Meanwhile the girls who were to have been Constance's bridesmaids appear on the deck in bathing dresses, having swum to the ship. Several very pretty dances follow, and then Dawdle manages to dispatch Rooney, who has also come aboard in disguise, to the captain of the coast guard at Crowbay. Rooney has also been entrusted with the terms of ransom proposed by A. Marlin Spike to Boggs for his daughter. The soldiers make their appearance and take possession of the ship. The act closes...
...special dispatch to the CRIMSON says: "The Washington Harvard Club has elected the following officers: President, Hon. George B. Loring; vicepresidents. Hon. Wm. A. Richardson, Judge Walter S. Coxe, Prof. J. R. Soley, Hon. Charles S. Fairchild and Prof. C. W. Winloch; secretary, Wm. Grant Webster; treasurer, John Sldney Webb. Hon. George Bancroft, who has been president of the club since its first formation has retired and the Hon. George B. Loring succeeds him. Mr. Wm. Grant Webster who succeeds Mr. Loring as secretary, graduated with the class of 1886 and has a fine reputation as an efficient organizer...
...telegram from Worcester says that the trustees of the new Clark University in that city have in their minds four Harvard professors for the presidency of the institution. Mathematics, physics and literature are the departments at present represented by these gentleman, the dispatch further states...
...dispatch from London published on Saturday should have been credited to the Boston Herald. In relation to the proposed race it may be said that the captain of the 'Varsity crew has received no communications from Cambridge except inquiries made some months...