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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...part from the desirability of being represented at Saratoga, four-oared rowing is too fine a sport to be neglected in the list of Harvard's athletics. Fours are very different from eights, and in many respects much more scientific. An eight-oared crew is much more difficult to get well together, but a four requires of its crew a thorough knowledge of watermanship, and a delicate control of the oar, which but few men who have rowed exclusively in eights ever possess...
...final list of the semis has been posted. We believe there are no changes...
...list of alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy includes twelve governors of states...
...Journal of Education lately proposed to its readers to send in lists of the "ten greatest living English men of letters" with the greatest work of each. Of such lists 534 were sent. The authors were ranked by the number of votes each received and the first forty would be considered as the "Immortals" of England, if the scheme was carried out. But it must be remembered that this journal appeals mainly to the great middle-class of England, and though no doubt well educated, yet its literary taste or judgment is not of the highest. Mr. George McDonald...
...present United States House of Representatives, 104 are college graduates. Harvard beads the list with 7, of whom Mr. Theodore Lyman is considered the most scholarly member of the whole house...