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Within the past two or three years several expeditions have been sent from Harvard to various parts of the continent with the purpose of making a special study of one or more of the heavenly bodies. Of all these expeditions none have been more signally successful than the expedition sent to California in December of last year to make observations of the sun's eclipse which occurred on January 1. The party was under the charge of Professor William H. Pickering, and to him must be given much of the praise which is due the remarkable success attending the efforts...
Athletics at Andover have never been in a better condition than now, and this is due to a great extent to Andover's athletic victories of the past year...
ENGLISH A.- The doors of Sever 11 will be locked at five minutes past nine on Tuesday and Saturdays...
...large, since most of those who contested in this event last summer have left college. We hope this appeal will be answered by every man who feels that he has any ability in field or track athletics. The number of candidates for the Mott Haven team in past years has always been very large, and to this fact its success is largely to be attributed We hope, therefore, that the call for men this year will be heeded, and that there may be no lack of men from whom a strong team may be chosen to meat our rival colleges...
Yale men are talking rather dubiously in regard to their chances for winning the baseball pennant again in the spring. The famous battery without which the nine could have done but little during the past three years, has been broken up by the graduation of Dann, and it is said that Stagg is unwilling to play again. These losses taken together with Harvard's increased chances on account of the removal of certain restrictions, make the New Haven men talk as if the loss of the pennant by Yale next spring was by no means improbable. Captain Noyes will have...