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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...threatening weather and the bad condition of the streets and fields, over forty men turned out. Coolidge and Paine, the hares, laid their trail down by the University Museum, thence up Oxford street and across fields by a more or less circuitous route to the Cambridge Reservoir and home by the old Harvard cross country course to a point on Garden street near the Observatory, where the break was made. The whole distance covered was about six miles, and the hares were out just fifty minutes. The first hound arrived 11 minutes and 30 seconds later, 30 seconds inside...
...have afforded real enjoyment to a great many men. They are what are known as "slow runs." The hares are given a start of about five minutes over the hounds, and after laying a trail of a few miles they designate some spot about half a mile from home as a "break" and mark this by a pile of the paper "scent." The hounds make no pretense to fast running until they reach this point, when the master-of-hounds gives the signal and such of the men as care to do so race over the rest of the couse...
...comedy, "Liberty Hall," by R. C. Car-ton. This play has enjoyed a protracted run in England and was given for 105 nights in New York with immense success. It is a dainty love story charmingly told. A young English girl loses her father and discovers that her home has been inherited by a young male relative to whom she is a stranger. She leaves home and hides her poverty in obscurity. She is followed by the new owner of her home, who wins her without disclosing his identity. The heroine is enacted by Viola Allen, and the hero...
...with students, who have had unusual advantages in education, to preach the word of God to a heathen world, and to show by noble lives of self-sacrifice the power and beauty of the Christian faith. The needs of foreign fields are so much greater than those of the home fields that they cannot be spoken of in the same breath. In Christian countries every one has heard the name of God, every one knows what a church is and the opportunities for hearing the word of God preached are very many. In foreign countries where the gospel has never...
...Harvard University Cycling Association will hold its annual fall road race on November 12, over last year's course. The distance is but 10 miles and the route is from the Gymnasium, Garden street, Concord avenue to Belmont, Pleasant street to Arlington,-and North avenue home. The race will be open to all members of the University and all riders are earnestly requested to compete. The handicaps will be liberal so that every one will have a fair chance. Two runs will be held over the course to acquaint any strangers with the route. A second race will be held...