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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yesterday Captain Goodrich met Captains Payne Whitney of Yale, and Colson of Cornell, in New York by separate appointment. A conference was arranged and the result was an agreement for a triangular race at New London next summer. The race will probably be rowed some time in Harvard Class Day week, Class Day being June 24, and will be over the new course on the Thames, approved last December as suitable for three crews...
...most interesting results of the year's work have been in the observations made with the meridian photometer, and in the experiments with kites at the Blue Hill Observatory. As a result of observations taken on 152 nights the total number of photometric settings is 100, 052, which is greater than that obtained in any previous year. The observations of all the stars north of 40 degrees, of the magnitude of 7.5 and brighter, are nearly completed. The exploration of the upper air with kites lifting automatic instruments which record atmospheric conditions has been continued. Last September records were brought...
...result of the meeting on February 5, when the Undergraduate University Club Committee conferred with President Eliot and the Graduate Committee, a letter has been given out in recognition of the recent mass meeting...
...first time the assessors of Cambridge have levied a tax on nine houses owned by the University and occupied by professors as private residences. This is done as a direct result of the precedent established by the decision of the Supreme Court in the Williams College Case last February. The houses are at 10 and 11 Frisbie place, 17 Kirkland street, and 11, 16, 17, 25, 37, and 38 Quincy street, and the tax amounts to $2922.50. On Jan. 12, Mr. E. W. Hooper, Treasurer of Harvard College, sent a petition to the assessors asking for an abatement...
...last few years the colleges have learned to realize more and more the necessity of consistent and methodical restraint, if athletics are to be retained in their normal position, subordinate to intellectual work. Each has, in its own way, tried to supply the needed regulations for itself. The result is that much progress has thus been made. But at the same time, and for the very reason that each college has thus worked on its own lines, the conflict of various opinions and interests has caused great confusion. The different systems of restraint are so difficult to bring into cooperation...