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...Varsity Glee Club will occupy seats in Section F at the game tomorrow. It has been customary for Yale to have a nucleus of Glee Club men in the grand stand to lead the singing and it will doubtless prove an attractive feature for Harvard to adopt the measure. There can be no better way of waking up a fading hope or of intensifying a growing one than this singing and it will doubtless meet with the hearty approval of the audience. The Club will sing some of the old familiar songs such as "Johnny Harvard...
...grand stand on the new athletic field of Northwestern University cost...
...indoor season of athletics will be reopened by a grand carnival of events at Madison Square Garden, New York, on Nov. 26 under the auspices of the Manhattan Athletic Club, The events will be open to all amateurs and three A. A. U. limit prizes will be given in each event. Entries close Nov. 18 with Mr. E. Van Schaick, captain and chairman, Athletic Committee, Madison avenue and Forty-fifth street. The events are: Athletic 70 yards dash, handicap; 175 yards dash, handicap; 350 yards run, novice; 600 yards run, handicap; mile run, handicap; 175 yards hurdle...
SCRIBNER'S.An article by Henry James on the "Grand Canal", with fascinating Italian pictures, begins the current number of Scribner's. After that the most striking contributions are a paper by W. C. Brownell on "Realistic Painting in France" and "Conversations and Opinions of Victor Hugo" by Octave Uzanne. The letter is very well illustrated from contemporary prints...
...noteworthy features of presidential campaigns at the present day are the national committees and the campaign funds. The former bear the whole brunt of the battle and conduct the grand strategy of the campaign; the latter, since money, like water, seeks the lowest level, flood the doubtful states, and have become a source of sore trouble to the sober impulses of both parties...