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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...closest mayoralty contests ever held in Cambridge, Edgar R. Champlin L. '80, mayor during the past year, was re-elected yesterday. He defeated his principal opponent, David T. Dickinson '88, by a majority of about eight hundred votes. The city voted no-license for the fourteenth successive year by a majority of one thousand. W. H. Lewis L. '95, Thorndike Spalding '95, J. D. Merrill '89, and Stoughton Bell '96, were elected members of the Common Council...
...meeting held last night of the men who played in either the Yale or Pennsylvania games, Charles Dudley Daly '01 was elected captain for next year. Daly prepared for Harvard at the Boston Latin School. He played quarterback on his Freshman team, and for the past two seasons has been regular quarterback on the University eleven...
...years ago, in '97 I believe, the Seniors established the custom of holding an exclusive Senior ball the evening before "Class Day." The custom has been observed by succeeding classes; and I believe has been quite successful. In the three years past the dance has been nominally in charge of the regular Class Day Committee. Perhaps, in a sense, it is connected with Class Day; but it is not a Class Day affair, and does not come on Class Day. Further, and much more important, the management of Class Day proper is ample work for any committee of three. Indeed...
...been customary for some years past, at the time of Class Day elections, for the three Senior clubs, namely, the Pi Eta, the D. U., and the Hasty Pudding, to make a combination and to arrange a slate satisfactory to themselves, and regardless of the rest. The members of these three clubs were practically pledged to vote for that slate, so making a solid body larger than any other that could easily be formed. In this way they were able to elect their own candidates, even though they might not have been the choice of the majority...
...Relations of Radcliffe with Harvard" which appeared in the Harvard Monthly for October. Professor Byerly believes that the picture of the dangers of those relations by Professor Wendell was "rather lurid," and he considers in turn the three statements in that article. First he shows by figures for the past six years that co-education in the College proper has not increased, that it has in fact decreased, and that the danger of complete co-education at Harvard exists no more today than it has in previous years. Professor Byerly dismisses as a test the admission of Radcliffe students...