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...Roxbury Latin and St. Paul's show material gains and rather more than make up for some of the losses of the other schools. Adams Academy has taken a decided brace and may once again be among Harvard's largest feeders. Below are the tables of the youngest and oldest men entering the classes...
...Youngest, 15 years, 21/2 months; oldest, 27 years, 5 months...
...Youngest, 15 years, 4 months. There were no strikingly old men, the oldest being about...
...hundred and fifty-one students. Yet why is this so? The only satisfactory solution of the problem lies in the fact that here all branches of athletics seem to be at their lowest ebb, while at the two colleges previously cited the case is reversed. Exeter Academy, Harvard's oldest and hitherto most reliable feeder, has sent nearly twice as many men to the other colleges as here, and the number of men who have gone to Yale from Andover is unprecedented. The only way to overcome this change of feeling is for Harvard to enter the athletic field with...
...informal reception was held Thursday night, and a collation served. John O. Sargent of the class of 1830, the oldest living graduate, read an original translation into English verse of the twenty-first ode of the first Book of Horace. Fifty new members were added to the club roll, bringing the total to about...