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...college president says that every student should thoroughly understand three languages - English, German and French; and an alarmist wants to know what will become of the three b's - boating, boxing and base-ball - if English is taken...
...London correspondent of the Advertiser says in a recent letter: "Harvard alumni will be glad to know that a recognition of the claims of American scholarship is about to be made by the English university of Cambridge, in the person of Prof. W. W. Goodwin. Your eminent Greek scholar is to receive the honorary degree of LL. D. at Cambridge on the 12th of June, in company with Sir John Lubbock, Matthew Arnold, M. Pasteur, the great French chemist; George F. Watts, the painter; General Menabrea, the Italian minister in London; Sir Alexander Grant, the principal of Edinburgh University...
...dancing, not a musical feature, it is doubtful whether we should even succeed in doing this. In view of these discouragements, is it to be wondered at, that few men, with high tenor voices, are willing to risk them in choral practice for the slight satisfaction of knowing that they are sustaining Harvard's musical reputation in spite of herself? As a matter of fact, there are but five creditable first tenor voices in the university, and only three of these five even are willing to sing. Any one at all acquainted with vocal music must know that this cuts...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : The communication about the cricket team in last week's Crimson appears to warrant some notice. I do not know whether the gentleman wrote his epistle in earnest or in fun, but evidently he was not acquainted with the subject concerning which he was writing. The cricket team and base-ball nine are suffering from the same trouble, namely, the want of a professional trainer, and are about on a par with each other in regard to number of victories and defeats. This season they have played two matches against the acknowledged strongest club in New England...
...boys as "shackers" only at the entrance to Holmes field and at the entrance to Jarvis field. It is believed that if all tennis players will do this much of the annoyance now caused by the host of small boys will be done away with. Tennis players will then know where "shackers" can be had, and will be able to make some choice, while the boys, if they are hired at these places alone, will cease to annoy players on all parts of the fields. If the tennis players in college comply with this request, and if it is found...