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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nine at Amherst this year promises to be stronger at the bat than Amherst nines have been for several years past...
...excusable. But the habitual lack of promptitude at lectures arising from the mere sense of the liberty to enter the lecture-room at any time during the hour, is and ought to be condemned. Latches on the recitation-room doors which could be unslipped at five or ten minutes past the hour, have been suggested. We would advocate this as a last resort. But till then we believe that the sentiment of the college is high enough to enforce prompt attendance at lectures without any such school-like expedient...
...second annual reunion of the New England Association of the Alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy will be held at the Hotel Vendome, Boston, on Wednesday, April 26, at 5.30 o'clock. Dinner will be served an hour later. All past members of the school have received cordial invitations to attend...
...have long been urgently needed. The remounting of the large telescope, and a new Observatory building, are in view, as well as a rather ambitions plan for the extension of astronomical investigation, which contemplates the support of researches conducted at other places by funds administered at Harvard. During the past year the Observatory has lost the services of Prof. Rogers, for a long series of year an indefatigable worker with the meridian circle. As a memorial to the late Prof. Henry Draper, the study of the photography of stellar spectra undertaken by him is now, through the liberality...
...your opponent, is to give rise to feelings of laxity and carelessness which are positively injurious to a good team. In such contests the weak points of the team have no chance of being found out, and are thus left uncorrected till the most important championship games. During the past two or three weeks Yale and Columbia have had a chance to perfect themselves by playing with such teams as the professional Newarks, New Yorks, Brooklyns, and Washingtons. These games have undoubtedly been productive of much good in pointing out weak points and in perfecting the strong points...