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...match of the series is to be played on Holmes Field. This idea is a new one and is likely to result favorably for the interests of cricket at Harvard. Comparatively few men in college have ever witnessed a cricket match, and the ideas of most men in regard to the game are decidedly vague. Matches enough are played at Longwood, Medford and other places in the vicinity; but only the men who know the game are willing to travel any distance to see it. If matches are instituted at Cambridge, however, there is no doubt that interest in cricket...
...been suggested to us that it would be well to follow up the idea expressed in the communication and editorial of Wednesday's issue in regard to the spring recess by a petition to be presented to the President and Fellows of the college. Accordingly we have taken it upon ourselves to place a blue-book containing a petition at Leavitt and Peirce's for the signatures of all those who are interested in the matter. For the benefit of those who did not see the communication and editorial referred to we would say that the proposed plan...
...presided over by the same professor from Harvard. To the private schools of New York they are of great value as forming a standard by which the quality of the teaching may be teased, for, even when candidates fail, the failure gives them and the instructors a clearer idea of the meaning of "accurate" work, and already more than one school has acknowledged its indebtedness to them as having been the means of improvising the character of the school. This renders the examinations of especial interest to the people of New York and very valuable to the parents whose daughters...
...article which we published recently concerning the freshman nine seems already to have had the desired effect of awakening the energies of the then nearly dormant nine, and of bringing before it a correct idea of what the college has a right to expect that it will accomplish this spring. The number of candidates almost immediately doubled and all set to work with an energy and vim which was truly admirable, but only suggestive of the great difficulties which will have to be overcome if a respectable nine is to be placed in the field this year. The system...
...idea of aiding men to go to college in this way is a new one, and will probably result in changing the minds of many people in favor of college education. Two hundred dollars a year will go a long way toward paying a man's college expenses, and many poor young men who may not have thought of a college education as a possible thing for them will be ready to take the responsibility of paying what expenses they incur above the two hundred dollars...