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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...school. It was voted to concur with the president and fellows in their votes appointing Benjamin Marston Watson, A. B., instructor in horticulture, and in reappointing Nathaniel Thayer Kidder, B. A. S., instructor in botany for 1889. The title of the assistant professorship, now held by Dr. F. H. Williams, was changed from that of "materia medica and therapeutics" to "therapeutics." The meeting was then adjourned...
Several weeks ago you published an editorial urging that a part of the surplus in the treasury of the F. F. B. A. be devoted to the purchase of suitable trophies for the members and substitutes on the football team. No action, however, seems to have been taken in the matter. Is this suggestion of the CRIMSON to be disregarded? I hope not, for it was certainly a good one. The men deserve some recognition of their splendid victory over Yale, and in later years such trophies, if given, will be pleasant mementos of the freshman year at Harvard...
Yours very truly, J. R. FINLAY.At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Boat Club, yesterday afternoon, Mr. Finlay's resignation was accepted. The members of last year's crew were called together in the evening and elected Mr. R. F. Herrick, '90, as his successor...
...Lincoln College (Oxford University, England) sports, the strangers' handicap at a quarter of a mile was won from scratch by Mr. F. J. K. Cross in 49 2-5 s., the quickest time on record for an Englishman at the distance. The honor of having eclipsed all others at a quarter of a mile belongs to Wendell Baker, formerly of Harvard, whose record of 47 3-4s. made at Beacon Park, Allston, in 1886, remains unbroken...
...understand that Mr. F. L. Dunne, the prominent Boston tailor is now building up a large business through the principal cities of the west. Mr. Dunne has had uniform success with his patrons here at Harvard and has established a reputation which places his firm in the front rank of the merchant tailors who supply the demand for exclusive and novel goods...