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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...site of exploration hitherto offered for the investigation of Grecian antiquities compares in promised fertility with Delphi. The French government have had the refusal of the privilege of investigation, but the recent failure of the French Senate to ratify a commercial treaty under negotiation has made its acceptance impossible. Thus the Greek government offers Delphi to the world, to be sold to the highest bidder. Fully $80,000 is necessary for its purchase, as the village of Castri is situated on the site. For the purpose of raising this money, a group of New York gentlemen are soliciting subscriptions...
...behalf of the good name of college journalism we feel called upon to commend heartily the Crimson's dignified reply to the recent sneering attack upon Harvard's athletic methods, in the Columbia Spectator. It is in very bad taste, to say the least, for a paper of the standing which the Spectator has always held hitherto, to ridicule the defeats of another college, and to make the spiteful accusations that it does. We cannot understand the spirit that has prompted the Spectator in these attacks upon other colleges, and are sure it is not that of the better element...
...Baldwin, a recent graduate of Harvard, is passing a few days with his friends in Boston and Cambridge. He is at present filling the position of assistant general freight agent of the Union Pacific railroad...
...animated appearance which it will take on a month hence when the men begin sliding to bases, practicing handball, batting, etc. The majority of the men will take up this work about the first of February. The candidates for pitcher and catcher, the names of whom appeared in a recent issue of the CRIMSON, are doing good work and making marked progress under the skilful instruction of Mr. Clarkson. Those with whom Clarkson is thrown in contact are unanimously of the opinion that the evil results supposed to be attendant upon the hiring of a professional coach are entirely fallacious...
...Quequechan, is reviewed and criticized. The article is notable for the carefulness and clearness of statement. The second article, "Statutory Changes in Employers' Liability," by Marland C. Hobbs, examines the origin of the common law doctrine of liability of employers, and traces the modifications wrought upon this doctrine by recent legislation in England and in some of the States. Among other things of interest in the present number is a communication from ex-Governor Hoadly of Ohio upon the subject of conditional pardon and of the parole system used in Ohio in mitigation of sentences...