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...result of conferences held during the past year, a club has been formed to promote the literary study of Greek and Latin. Those who wish to emphasize the literary rather than the scientific side of the classics will find large resources already in the University. To use and increase these is the purpose of the new club. The members will be partly tutors and partly students. A graduate of any college is eligible as tutor, whether a member of the Faculty or not. Any undergraduate of Harvard, who is taking at least one classical course extending through the year...
...mass meetings suggested by the joint committee from Exeter and Andover should surely result in the renewal of athletic contests between the two schools. It is absurd that such leading preparatory schools in the country should any longer be kept at variance merely for lack of general will to come to some agreement. In any league which may be now formed, it should not prove difficult to guard against a repetition of the conditions which led to the present separation. Out of experience, the schools should have learned sufficient wisdom to direct with success their mutual efforts toward maintaining friendly...
Harvard turned the tide of defeat Saturday by defeating the University of Pennsylvania by a score of 8 to 3. Harvard scored eight runs in the first four innings, so that there was little excitement during the rest of the game. The result was due mainly to the excellent pitching of Highlands and the costly errors of Pennsylvania. Besides this the Harvard men ran bases with good judgment and took every possible advantage of their opponent's misplays. The fielding of the home team, too, was very clean, only three errors being made on hard hit balls...
...number opens with "Francis Parkman's Autobiography," which was read at a special meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, held to commemorate the death of the historian, but which has not before been published. This remarkable autobiography was the result, so the author tells us, of a desire to make known the extreme difficulties, which reduced to small proportions, what might have been a good measure of achievement. After reading the story we are amazed at the actual amount of work the man accomplished under difficulties almost insurmountable, and can only faintly realize what he might have succeeded in doing...
...result of this close and long continued application to study was a weakness of his eyes, that increased with alarming rapidity until he was almost blind. He was unable to read for more than five minutes at a time, and could not bear the sunlight. Against this adverse fortune, when most men would have given up effort, Francis Parkman struggled the greater part of his life. The story of his struggles, and of his life, crippled by sickness, is full of pathos, and a heroism that is inspiring...