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Cornell has won the championship for the last five years, and is expected to do so again this year. The University team finished fifth last year, but although the present team is fairly strong, it has been beaten by Yale, which in turn lost to Princeton, so that its chances seem rather doubtful. However, the team has been improving steadily, and should do better than last year...
...present football situation in Harvard University, emphasized by the stinging defeat of last Saturday, if bound to cause much adverse criticism from both graduates and undergraduates. The responsibility for the defeat must be mainly with those in control of football, although at least a part must be borne by Harvard men themselves. This lesser responsibility is due to the general spirit of resignation which was shown, immediately after the Yale game, to have pervaded the University. Being resigned to defeat, coupled with the sentiment so generally expressed: "Well, they played ever so much better than was expected and did mighty...
...Harvard Memorial Dinner, held last night in Memorial Hall under the auspices of the Memorial Society, was a brilliant success, both in the large number of graduates and undergraduates present and in the long list of distinguished speakers...
...entrance to the hall was led at 7 o'clock by Mr. W. C. Lane, president of the Harvard Memorial Society, and President Eliot, who presided during the evening. Besides the delegates from the Harvard Clubs, who were seated at the speakers' table, there were present a large number of unofficial representatives of Harvard Clubs, and the number of undergraduates raised the total number present to about 500. The seats and tables were arranged as usual in the hall, except that the speakers' table occupied a raised platform along the eastern wall between the doors...
...Sloss '90, of the Supreme Court of California; Dr. H. W. Wiley '73, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry in the United States Department of Agriculture; Professor A. E. Kennelly, Bishop William Lawrence '71, Dr. George A. Gordon, D.D., '81; Sir Courtenay Ilbert of Baliol College, Oxford, present clerk of the British House of Commons; R. L. O'Brien '71, and Dean LeB. R. Briggs...