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...local arrangements for the meeting have been placed in charge of a committee of which Professor S. C. Prescott of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is chairman. Other members of the committee include Professors G. H. Parker, W. M. Wheeler, L.L.B. '02, W. J. B. Osterhout, Harlow Shapley, Theodore Liman '97, A. B. Lamb, Ph. D. '04, and E. B. Wilson of the University. The secretary to the committee is A. L. Town-send, instructor in mechanical engineering...
Unquestionablyit is the orderly chronicling of events that underlies al history. But interwoven must be color and life or the events will lose their relative importance or fail to stand out at all. This side the modern historians neglect or ignore. The successors to Parkman or Prescott are-turning their attention to other fields. What comes in to fill the gap is historical fiction. An inspired novelist like Scott, building a "casing of romance upon a core of realism", as Brander Mathews remarked, with a historian's mind for detail, and the creative imagination of an artist; should be prescribed...
Pfaffman defeated Prescott of Williams 8-6, 9-7, in the best singles match of the day. Both men hit the ball hard, but Pfaffman's superior service and net-play was the deciding factor. Guild, after apparently losing the first set to Cook, rallied and won the match, while Captain Duane, playing in his best form, disposed of Rouse with the loss of but three games...
Singles.--Duane (H) defeated Rouse (W), 6-1, 6-2; Pfaffman (H) defeated Prescott (W), 8-6, 9-7; Guild (H) defeated Cook (W), 9-7, 6-1; Bredley (H) defeated Ewing...
Doubles.--Dusne and Pfaffman (H) defeated Rouse and Prescott (W), 6-4, 8-6; Cook and Ewing (W) defeated Bradley and Holmes...