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...held on Jarvis Field on Saturday and Monday, April 28 and 30. The entrance fee will be one dollar and the annual dues from each school five dollars. First and runner-up prizes will be given and a championship shield will be awarded to the school winning the greatest number of points, each match won counting one point. The winner of the tournament will be entitled, as Harvard Interscholastic Champion for 1900, to play at Newport in August for the Interscholastic Championship of the United States. All entries should be made to S. P. Ware, 48 Mt. Auburn street. Entries...
...holding weekly matches in competition for the Bancroft and Novice Revolver Cups, and the Rifle and Pistol Cups. The contest for the Bancroft and Novice Cups will close on March 28, and that for the Rifle and Pistol Cups on April 13. The men who have won the greatest number of weekly matches in each contest will be awarded the cups. The score of matches is now: For the Bancroft Cup--Hodskins 5, Shirk 3; for the Novice Cup--Bancroft 5, Roberts 2, Edwards 1; for the Rifle Cup--Bancroft 3, Hodskins 1, James 1, Shirk 1, Haskell...
Early in the introduction, Mr. Rideout says happily that "whether or not Gray was 'a poet fallen on an age of prose,' he was beyond doubt a great letter writer fallen on the great age of letter-writing." Indeed Gray has been called the greatest of English letter writers. This and the fact that hitherto his letters have been accessable only in Mr. Gosse's inaccurate edition of Gray's complete works would be excuse enough for any volume of selections. But Mr. Rideout has chosen so wisely, has used such good judgment in picking out those letters which...
...first number of the Advocate to be issued by the 1901 board gives promise of a successful year. In some way the editors have obtained stories from new men, and the result is decidedly refreshing. New writers are the greatest boon a paper such as the Advocate can receive, and it is to be hoped that the coming year will produce more originality of plot and novelty of treatment than have been shown of late years...
...well under way. Although it is yet early, the material is beginning to shape itself, and the merits and faults of the candidates are beginning to appear. The most general fault is inaccuracy in throwing. The spirit of the men is all that can be desired, and the greatest danger is that of overwork...