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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : It is to be regretted that the Crimson has an editorial and announcement in regard to the races to be given by the Bicycle Club at Beacon Park. The members of the faculty have had the matter under consideration for a few days past, and some objections to the plan were made. These objections were the expression of private views given unofficially, and it is to be regretted that an announcement based upon them has been made. I am glad to announce that at a meeting of the faculty committee on Friday last, it was agreed...
Alexander H. Stevens died at Atlanta, Ga., yesterday morning at half-past three...
...case, thought to be the most curiously printed of any book hitherto done in the world." Some letters from Emmanuel Kant to the grandfather of Prof. H. A. Hagen of Harvard are here preserved. Here, too, is Longfellow's first draft of "Excelsior." dated "Sept. 28, 1841. Half-past three in morning." It is written on the back of a letter addressed to him by Charles Sumner. The two lines...
...hoped that the meeting of the Inter-Collegiate Base-Ball Association, which begins today. will settle satisfactorily the questions which have been agitating the college base-ball world during the past winter. The meeting will have an opportunity to discuss intelligently these questions. The misconceptions which have been so frequent can be explained away, and a chance will be given to talk the matter over sensibly without any foolish considerations of sentiment...
...suggestion offered in the Exonian as regards teaching the Exeter crews the proper method of rowing, has certainly much to commend it. The whole objection in the past to aiding the academy boating interests has been that the men there were liable to acquire a bad system of rowing, so that it would afterwards be harder to teach them the Harvard stroke than it would if they had known absolutely nothing about rowing. The Exonian, in mentioning a way for removing this objection, appeals indirectly to Harvard, and its plea deserves to be presented and considered. Three years...