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...Saturday the Nine won the first victory in the series for the College championship, defeating Dartmouth by a score of 5 to 2. The Dartmouth men were extremely hospitable in their entertainment and impartial in applause. Rundlett pitched with excellent effect, and was well supported by Cram behind the bat. Thayer played finely at second base, and made several brilliant fly-catches. Winsor pitched well, and Nunn made some fine stops; Coolidge, however, carried off the fielding honors for Harvard by putting out three men and assisting six times, including two double plays. The Dartmouth Nine is an extremely strong...
...first ten of the Institute from '82 are as follows: Kane, Bartlett, Warren, Bowen, Stone, Pendleton, Dickey, Leavitt, Sedgwick, and Manning...
...Summer School of Geology begins its first course this year in Cambridge, July 7, and ends at Catskill, N. Y., August 15. Twelve students must constitute the school, and the fee for tuition is $25. A matron will accompany the school for the benefit of lady students. For information address Mr. W. M. Davis, Jr., 15 Sumner Street, Cambridge. Professor N. S. Shaler will direct the second course, which will give field-training to men in connection with the Kentucky Geological Survey. The fee is the same as above, and the term is from June 15 to September 15. Address...
...FIRST catch your judges and assort them carefully. Pick out some plump and tender specimens, and mix with them a few thin and tough ones. If possible, have one or more of them boast that he knows nothing about speaking. Next proceed to make a small hole in the skull of each judge and draw out his brains. They are now ready for use. Place them under a slow gas fire from the speakers for two hours or more, and then remove them to another apartment. Plunge them at once into a stewpan, sprinkle in a liberal allowance of pepper...
...have a definite and much more sensible work to do, - they are intended to furnish inducements to study. And the question is not whether the new honors are in themselves more or less valuable, but whether they are better fitted to encourage study. The writer, at least in the first part of his article, seems to think they are not; that because so many men will receive the lower grades of honors, the list will have no interest to any one. But it is not easy to see how the interest felt in honors which four or five...