Word: philadelphia
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Wilbur Morse '00, of Philadelphia, prepared for College at the Central High School. In the fall of '94 he entered the University of Pennsylvania and became a member of the Philomathean Debating Society, which he represented in an interclub debate with the Zelosophic Society. The following fall he entered Harvard, and was on the '99 Freshman debating team which defeated Yale. Morse spent the winter of '96-'97 in Philadelphia doing newspaper work. In the fall of '97 he re-entered Harvard and made the University debating team which lost to Yale at New Haven in December...
...five candidates are practicing daily for the gymnastic team. Of the five specialties, the most rapid progress is being made in tumbling. Immediately after the Christmas recess a team will be picked to take part in the dual exhibition with the University of Pennsylvania which will be held in Philadelphia about January 20. Following this there will be a dual contest between Harvard and Yale which will be held in Cambridge early in February. Columbia University has invited the team to take part in a dual contest at the opening of her new gymnasium in New York. The season will...
...library, in co-operation with all the other libraries in the United States, has recently been engaged in preparing a list of its incunabula or books published before 1500. This work is being done at the request of the Public Library of Philadelphia, which has undertaken the task of compiling a list of all the incunabula in the United States, and the places where they may be found. This list is to figure in the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Gutenberg of Maing, the inventor of printing
...meeting of the Freshman class held last night to elect class officers, the following men were elected: President, R. Derby of New York, Groton School; vice-president, J. D. Clark of Boston, Hopkinson School; secretary, G. W. South of Philadelphia, Andover Academy...
West Point and Annapolis will play the sixth game of their football series today, on Franklin Field, Philadelphia. Of the five games played in the past, Annapolis has won three, including the last, and West Point one; the other game...