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...first paper on "Class Crews, Past and Present," is an interesting account of the beginnings and early development of the Harvard interest in aquatic sports. Very few students to-day know anything of the changes which have brought rowing into its present high repute. We look with pleasure for the continuation of the narrative. The last prose article is "How John Swinton came to go into Business." We do not think that Swinton as portrayed here was very logical in his search for a profession. Instead of looking for the higher types among the lawyers, the doctors and the ministers...
...just this time of the year the different clubs are at work on new music for the spring concert, so the program reminded one of past times, but showed the result of careful work. The quartette of the Glee Club met with especial favor. It is but fair to the retiring leader of the Glee Club to repeat what a man remarked who has heard all the concerts for several years: "It was the best singing the Glee Club ever did." The Pierian played but twice, and received a warm response. The Banjo Club, as usual, made a decided...
...sorrowful duty to announce the death of Professor Ernest Young, which occurred in Boston on Friday last. Mr. Young's health had been for some time past a source of anxiety to friends, but nobody was prepared for the sudden and tragical event of Friday. It was not till last week that his condition became at all alarming. At a consultation of physicians held on Thursday, it was found that he was threatened with insanity, and he was ordered to give up all work immediately. The knowledge that he was in a serious condition seems to have greatly deepened...
There has been a marked activity shown in the various departments of the University during the past year in bringing before the public the results of investigations by the various instructors. These gentlemen have not only attended to their official duties but they have with commendable energy pursued their several special lines of study with benefit to a large class of people. Much valuable work has been done by the members of the Astronomical Observatory. Director Edward C. Pickering has issued a short but extremely important document, viz., "The First Annual Report of the Photographic Study of Stellar Spectra conducted...
...congratulating the Advocate, let us not forget to say a word or two about ourselves. We have purchased a better stock of paper and an entirely new set of type, and in a few days we expect a new heading for the front page. The issues of the past two or three days have been much better typographically on account of these changes. In justification to ourselves, we wish to say that both the paper and the type were ordered before the appearance of that barbed arrow cast at us by the '88 board of the Advocate, under cover...