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...second convention of the Inter-Collegiate Lacrosse Association at Harvard on the 22d of last month, it will be remembered, a constitution was adopted and the rules hitherto in use were considerably altered. The following are some of the important changes : A clause was inserted in the constitution providing for the expulsion from the association of any club which persists in ungentlemanly conduct in playing. An effectual provision was made against any repetition of the block-game, which nearly proved so disastrous to the foot-ball interests. Formerly a club could mass its players before the goal, and with...
...however, I fear there will be another deficit at the end of this year. Let me urge the members of the freshman class in particular to make their subscriptions as large as possible. In estimating the amounts to be contributed by the various classes it has been the custom hitherto to count upon thirty-three and one-third per cent of the total amount from the freshman class, but unless the members of '86 contribute more freely than they have done thus far this year, they will fall far below the estimate...
This year we are fortunate in having the games determined on and the dates fixed at the very beginning of the season, an end being thus put to the almost endless negotiations which have hitherto been deemed indispensable. There is no good reason why the precedent thus established should not be followed in succeeding years. making the annual series of base-ball games with Yale as much a fixture as the annual Yale race promises...
...inaugural ball, March 5, 1865. There is also a finely written letter, dated London, April 28, 1758, in which Franklin begs the college (Harvard) to do him the favor "to accept a Virgil I send in the case, thought to be the most curiously printed of any book hitherto done in the world." Some letters from Emmanuel Kant to the grandfather of Prof. H. A. Hagen of Harvard are here preserved. Here, too, is Longfellow's first draft of "Excelsior." dated "Sept. 28, 1841. Half-past three in morning." It is written on the back of a letter addressed...
...operate with it in the United States, by receiving and distributing in this country the telegraphic information sent from Kiel, and by forwarding to Kiel by telegraph any similar information of importance collected from American astronomers. By the courtesy of Prof. Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the function hitherto performed by the institution, of collecting and transmitting announcements of discovery, has been transferred to the Harvard College Observatory. American astronomers are requested to send to the "Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass.," telegraphic information of discoveries of comets, asteroids, or phenomena of any kind requiring immediate attention...