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Professor Charles Franklin Dunbar died at his home on Highland street late Monday night at the age of sixty-eight years. His death was quiet and painless. For some years he has been in feeble health, but no solicitude was felt regarding his condition until within the past fortnight. He had a son in the class of '78 and two in the class...
Debating at Harvard has undergone such rapid changes during the past three years that few of the features which existed in the old system are still extant. At the beginning of this period there was no University Debating Club--but there were two rival organizations, the Harvard Union and the Forum, which elected their members from all the different classes. But interest in these clubs began to flag, and as the result of causes which had been at work for several years, the two were combined in the spring of 1898, into a University Debating Club. Debates were carried...
...regard to the Yale spirit at the present time, I can say from my heart that it is a thing of inspiration. Never has it been more fully manifest in students, in the faculty, in the administration, and in the graduates. The work of the athletic season, during the past six months, has not been anything to boast of outside; it has been a thing on which inside among ourselves we may congratulate ourselves for. Beginning in the autumn with discouraging prospects, Captain McBride and his men have worked faithfully and the college has supported them. Never has so large...
...appointment of Charles Nichols of the Boston League team, as a professional coach of the baseball team, is a departure from the system which has been in vogue for the past six years. Since 1894 the coaching of the team has devolved entirely upon the graduates of the university...
...most important results from the investigations of the past year, are described as follows: The number of photographs taken with the Draper telescopes is 3139, and the examination of the spectra contained on these plates and on those taken with the Bruce and the Bache telescopes has led to the discovery of twenty-three variable stars. A new star was also found in the constellation Sagittarius. Perhaps the most important investigation undertaken during the year with these photographs was the search for the planet Eros during its opposition in 1894. The detailed study of the spectra of the southern stars...