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...holding a class meeting? If their opponents are willing to discuss the question once more, surely the victors in the last meeting should consent. It will be worse than a defeat next June, if Ninety has any stain on its honor in boating matters. To reconsider the former decision, not a few think, is to yield not to Yale, but to justice...
HORIZONTAL BARS.The contest in this, the first event of the afternoon, was a good one, and compared favorably with the exhibitions of skill and muscle in former years. The entries were: H. Swain, '88; A. T. Dudley, '87; G. L. Barney, s. s.; F. B. Myers, '90, and R. T. Osgood, '87. Osgood performed some very dexterous feats, and was given first prize; Dudley was second...
...have been uniformly pleasant we feel that we are justified that the plan laid out for this year surpasses them all. The Catskills and the Berkshire Hills are charming summer retreats and the advantage of combining pleasure with work thus will be made easy. We can prophesy that the former will not suffer at the expense of the latter...
Arthur Boykin, a graduate, then spoke on "Africa in America." He emphasized what a former speaker had said of the sore need of competent teachers in the South, of the eagerness with which the negroes seize all opportunities offered them. The speaker gave a short sketch of his life, better to show the need of his people. Mr. Boykin was followed by Marguerite La Fleshe, who spoke of the difference of the condition of her people, the Omahas, to-day, and fifteen years ago when she lived among them. Then they lived as tribes; but in the interval they have...
...first Winter Meeting occurs today, and bids fair to be more interesting than in former years, on account of the transfer of part of the sparring to this day. This meeting is sometimes tedious, on account of the great number of events on the programme. The only way to make these events interesting is to make them as short and exciting as possible...