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...intention of running against Mr. Rogers till next May; that Winston had acted on his own responsibility in sending the challenge. He was not in training, he said, and was unable to run on account of examinations under any circumstances. He placed July 15 as the earliest possible date at which he could run, if he concluded to, and on being informed that Mr. Rogers would gladly train till then to set the question at rest, he added that he "didn't intend to run anyhow, and never had." The race will not come...
...forward to their electives. No college in the United States offers so many advantages in this department as Harvard does. In the first place, there are seven different courses for the study of the literature alone, covering periods in the English world of letters from the time of the earliest Anglo-Saxon writers down to the present day. The courses are so arranged that one may begin at whatever period he likes and study the growth of literature historically. Prof. Child has five courses (1, 2, 3, 4 and 11) covering the periods from the beginning down to Shakespeare...
...eight hundred people sat down to dinner in Union Hall. The dinner was followed by music and several speeches, the principle of which were made by the mayor, Captain J. P. Richardson, Lieut.-Governor Ames, Judge Charles Devens, Generals Banks and Hincks, ex-Mayor Fox, Dr. McKenzie, and the earliest war mayor, Hon. C. T. Russell...
...past members of the CRIMSON board are requested to call at the office at their earliest opportunity...
...apart one day or more in the year in which to express its gratefulness to the "immortal gods" for the gifts of nature. Our Thanksgiving day was probably first suggested by the old Hebrew feast of Tabernacles, celebrated soon after the gathering of the harvests. But the earliest modern record of such a day, observed by official proclamation, is found in Holland under the date of 1575. The Pilgrim fathers, being ever imbued with feelings of thankfulness at their own virtues, no doubt got the idea of the festival during their life among the Dutch...