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There are as yet no signs of the dead-lock in the House of Representatives breaking. There was quite a sensational scene yesterday in the House over Hewitt's letter...
...system of furnishing board, mentioned in our last letter, has proved a perfect success during the first month, excellent board having been given at a cost falling a trifle below three dollars per week...
...occurred there for many years. Yet it is not altogether unexpected; at various times during the spring expressions of confidence and hope in their freshmen have appeared in the Columbia papers. A similar opinion on the merits of this crew, expressed by our Columbia correspondent in a recent letter to the HERALD, will perhaps be recalled. The N. Y. Herald, excellent authority on the matter, says: "The winning eight are a likely-looking lot, and with proper care and coaching, Harvard's freshmen, who come against them on the Harlem July 1, will have a deal of work...
...recent meeting of the Yale Lawn Tennis Club it was voted to reply to a letter from the Harvard club that the Yale club is, at present, unable to join in an inter-collegiate association...
...meetings, in one direction, are tending to foster this growth. In another, the widening feeling among college men, and college graduates, that they have many interests in common, that there should be more of such interests than of rivalries, goes to strengthen the idea. The conventions of the Greek-letter societies have a decided influence in cultivating this spirit among many colleges; though Harvard is only included in this circle of influences, to any extent, by means of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The recent suggestion of President Eliot, that the German custom of migrations of students from one college...