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...consisting of the Commissioner of Education and twelve members appointed by the President, one to retire each year. The bill further provides for an advisory council consisting of one member from each state to be appointed by the Governor of the state, preferably the president of the state university. None of these officers are to receive any pecuniary remuneration beyond the defraying of expenses incurred in the pursuance of their duties...
...University baseball squad yesterday afternoon, when a sort of practice game was held. Two teams in which changes were made from time to time were pitted against each other, although the batteries did not change with the teams. In the course of the practice several batteries were tried, but none of the first string pitchers were used. It was the first opportunity for outdoor batting and pitching, and several of the batters showed up to good advantage against the second string pitchers...
...Boston Harvard Club has been formed at last, without the spacious headquarters to be found in some of our cities to be sure, but none the less a Harvard Club, aiming to foster the Harvard spirit and promote unity among the Boston alumni. Why Boston was among the last instead of the first to secure representation in the Associated Harvard Clubs it is hard to say; but now that the organization is fairly launched, it deserves the unstinted support of the loyal graduates of this vicinity...
...speed; and, although they still have a tendency to draw away from the plate, due partly to the poor light of the Cage and also to the inaccuracy with which the balls break over the plate, they are really batting very well for this time of year. Though none of the catchers show great proficiency at present, they are able to hold the curved balls much better than earlier in the season...
...more devoted to their studies; and there is not the superabundant interest in outsider things that there is at Harvard. At Berlin this condition is more apparent then at other universities, for at Bonn, Heidelberg and the other provincial universities there is more esprit de corps. At none of the European universities is there any development of athletics corresponding to ours. Compulsory service in the army supplies in part the need of physical training, but the absence of athletics makes student life lack variety. The Germans work harder in their courses, and with the felling that these are a definite...