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...eligible to compete again. There is some doubt, however, whether Burke's health, which has been poor all summer, will permit him to run this year. The team is very much strengthened by the return of D. Grant M. S., who was absent last winter, but still has one more year to represent Harvard according to the intercollegiate rules. Although he injured his ankle last spring, he has since run one-mile and five-mile races in his best form. It is too early yet to make any estimate concerning the Freshman candidates for the track team, but there seems...
...scored against Harvard last year, and is expected to put up a strong game today. So many members of the football squad have received temporary injuries during the past week that the line-up of the eleven today is very uncertain. While Campbell and Ristine have been laid off, one of them will probably play. Daly has not taken an active part in the practice since the Williams game, and it is not likely that he will play today. Lawrence will play tackle in place of Eaton, who will not be out again for some time. Lawrence is an aggressive...
...Harvard Christian Association's reading room at "T" Wharf will be conducted this year on an entirely new plan. The men who have agreed to aid in the work have been divided into squads, one of which will be in attendance at the reading room every day. Musical entertainments will be given, probably on alternate Saturday evenings, beginning the latter part of next month. In addition to the musical part of the programme, addresses will probably be made by members of the Faculty...
President Eliot, who spoke first, said in part: The men who have come here for the first time have joined a body of men, twenty thousand strong, some living, some dead, but all making themselves equally heard. Yet in joining the College, they incidentally become members of one of its smaller groups; in fact the group, in the choice of subjects, rather than the particular class joined, is largely to determine the kind of men with whom they become most intimate. By this principle of subdivision the large college is distinguished from the small college. President Garfield once remarked that...
Professor Baker then spoke briefly on the literary activities of the College. He warned the new men, on the one hand, against impatience in writing and neglect of technique; and on the other hand, against feeling discouraged over temporary failure. His closing remarks dealt with the value of debating as a help to men desirous of forming intellectual friendships...