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...been decided to send a relay swimming team of four men from Harvard to compete against Yale, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania at the Sportsman's Show. Practice for the team is being held every evening at half past nine in the swimming tank in Craigie Hall under the direction of Dr. Henry H. Harrison, one of the track team coaches and swimming master at North East Harbor, Maine. The following men are now trying for the team: A. W. Ristine '02, D. C. Campbell '02, A. R. Campbell '01, F. Wyman '03, T. O. Hillen...
Since its rearrangement by the committee appointed last year for that purpose, the Trophy Room has contained all the available pictures and trophies pertaining to successful Harvard athletics for the past twenty years. There are 135 photographs, 85 banners, and 205 baseballs on exhibition and about sixty balls which have not yet been arranged. The pictures are of the crews, the winning Mott Haven teams, the University and Freshman football and baseball teams and the successful Freshman crews. Photographs of this year's University and Freshman football teams are not yet placed in the room...
...present time. Among the topics to be considered are the domestic life of the common people, police methods, the amount and kind of crime prevailing at different periods, conditions of trial, methods of punishment, state of the prisons, and the history of certain celebrated crimes in the past century. The course will have one two-hour session each week, devoted to lectures and discussion, and weekly reports on the investigation of special topics will be required. Students electing the course will be expected to have such a knowledge of methods of investigation as can be gained from History...
...circumvent this decision of the Supreme Court, the city of Cambridge has, during the past month, been attempting to carry a bill in the State Legislature, asking that the College property be assessed for its full value of over $10,000,000 and that this tax be paid to Cambridge out of the State treasury. This is justified, it is argued, on the ground that about 40 per cent. of Harvard men live in Massachusetts and enjoy the municipal advantages and improvements of Cambridge. The principle of this plan has a great significance since it will acknowledge the justice...
Morning prayers at this time were held at six o'clock and attendance upon them was enforced by requiring the payment of money for any delinquency. Immediately after prayers the students proceeded to their recitations before breakfast, which was served at half-past seven o'clock. This order of exercises was justified on the ground that it was important that the undergraduates should not only be roused from their beds, but called to some intellectual exertion at an early hour; and that a recitation immediately after rising in the morning was the best security for the proper employment...