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Henry Dunster was a graduate of Magdalen College, Cambridge, England, in 1630. He came to America in 1640, and in the same year was chosen the first president of Harvard College, which had been founded six years before. His fourteen years of office came at the most critical period in the history of the College, and his service was effectual in placing it on a firm foundation. His resignation in 1654 was the result of a dispute with the stricter Puritans of the colony over church doctrines which Dunster refused to accept. After his resignation he was pastor...
...finished a few days ago. Members of last year's team did not compete in the first round, but started in the second. Forty men entered the tournament and were divided into seven sections, from each of which two men were taken up into the second round. These fourteen and the four members of last year's intercollegiate team played in the second round, and from these, the following ten men were chosen to play tonight: E. Q. Abbott 2L., E. R. Brown '09, D. B. Childs '10, J. L. Clark 2L., M. A. Driscoll 1L., E. H. Gruening...
...verse only "Vistas," by John Hall Wheelock, attains distinction. Four or five of its eight lines are very good. It makes you wish that Mr. Wheelock had tried to be similarly concise in his other verses, "For a Book of Poems," for even the fourteen lines of a sonnet are more than he needs for the expression of his thought...
...Izard, H. E. Merwin, D. O. Slater, F. E. Stacbner, T. R. Treadwell; from 1909--J. E. McGillicuddy, R. M. Middlemass, H. W. O'Connor, C. C. Reusch, C. H. Watkins; from 1910--E. P. Eldredge, R. C. Hallowell, R. Hutton, M. J. Leonard, W. R. Ohler. There are fourteen directors to be elected, not more than four of whom may be graduates. Additional nominations may be made in writing to the president, F. H. Burch 3L., Walter Hastings 8, before midnight. Nominations for officers should be signed by at least 20 members of the association; nominations for directors...
...finals of the Intercollegiate Fencing meet, held in the New York Athletic Club on Saturday night, Annapolis won by the score of fourteen out of eighteen bouts. West Point was second, winning ten out of eighteen; Cornell third, winning three out of eighteen; and Yale fourth, having lost all of her bouts. Harvard, Pennsylvania, and Princeton failed to qualify. In the semi-finals, Harvard was defeated by Yale by the score of seven to two. The bouts resulted as follows: A. C. Scalley (Y.) defeated C. A. Bliss '08; W. F. Low '07 defeated G. Hass (Y.); B. H. Smith...