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Professor Nash was graduated from Harvard in 1878, and from the Cambridge Theological School in 1881. He is now a professor of literature interpretation of the New Testament in the latter institution. In 1907 he received the degree of D.D. from Harvard...
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, telegraphed yesterday that he could not fulfill his appointment to speak in the Union tonight, on account of a delay in introducing the Aldrich Currency Bill in the Senate. He will probably deliver an address here the latter part of next week...
...infielders, besides the regular double plays and stopping of grounders, have devoted much time to base sliding and to catching men between bases. In the latter department the work has been of a very poor order, while in the former it has not been of a much higher grade. The base sliding has consisted in sliding back to first base head first and sliding to second either head first or feet first. Considerable improvement ought to be shown in both departments by another week...
General Woodford said that every patriotic and wise man in considering a candidate for any great office should ask first, "Is he fit?" and second, "Is he available?" In answer to the first of these questions General Woodford said that he had known Gov. Hughes since the latter graduated from college, and that he had at once recognized in him a genius for work. He distinguished himself as counsel for the commission which was investigating the gas system of New York, and in 1905-06 by his honesty and courage procured the punishment of the guilty officers of the great...
...Weld Boat Club was founded in 1890 by George W. Weld '61, for the promotion of undergraduate rowing. The old club house stood on the site of the new one until the erection of the latter in 1907. The club was a great success from the first and filled a long felt want. This interest showed itself in the development of good crews and scullers, whose excellence is shown by the fact that in one regatta alone the club won seven events. The University crew drew many of its members from the Weld crews, taking five men from one eight...