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...report of John S. Damrell, Boston's inspector of buildings, upon the causes of the accident at the Harvard boat-house, is as follows : L. E. Sexton, President of the Harvard University Boat Club-Dear Sir : In response to your letter under date of Nov. 12,1883, I visited the site of the Harvard University Boat Club house in Cambridge, Mass., and examined building and platforms on the west or water side of same, with a view of ascertaining the cause of accident Oct. 20, 1883. The platform I found in a wrecked condition-that is, a certain or central...
...constitution of the co-operative society proposed by the Board of Directors as explained by the secretary of the board in our columns yesterday are all so obviously reasonable that they can meet with no opposition from the society at large. The arguments in their favor given in the letter referred to render any further comments unnecessary...
...following is taken from a letter to the Oberlin Review :-My three hours visit made me like Harvard. Her students are evidently gentlemen, and during my short stay I saw not one element of rowdyism which is observed so much in some Eastern colleges...
During the seven years that the Rugby game has been played, says a Yale letter, Harvard has never put the ball over Yale's cross bar and Princeton has only touched the ball behind Yale's goal once and secured one goal from the field...
Yesterday's Herald and Globe contained extracts from Mr. Lowell's letter on sparring in the current numof the Advocate and both papers sustained the position taken...