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Mandolin Club.Twenty-eight men presented themselves last night as candidates for the Mandolin Club. The material was most excellent and there must necessarily be a very sharp competition among the successful candidates to get positions on the club. Seventeen men were retained for further trial and these will be weeded out until the required number is reached. Following is a list of the successful candidates: Mandolins, R. L. Scaife '97, A. P. Carter '97, P. S. Gill '98, F. W. Johnston '97, G. L. Collins '96, L. V. Friedman '95, F. R. Wright '98, S. W. Fordyce...
Hard batting on the part of the visitors lost the game for Harvard yesterday. For seven innings Brown batted Highlauds all over the field, making seventeen hits with a total of twenty off his delivery. Highlands, however, allowed but two men their bases on balls and fielded his position remarkably well, making seven assists besides striking two men out. In the eighth inning Paine went into the box and, with the exception of a home run and a single, Brown could not hit him at all. Paine, moreover, caught two men off first in fine style. Four clean hits...
...game yesterday between the juniors and freshmen was very poorly played by both sides and uninteresting. Ninety-seven made seventeen runs in the first inning and after that scored but nine. The freshmen batted Reed hard, making twenty hits with a total of twenty-three. The score...
...permanent, we should think it unjust to keep general tables. All should be made the same. To have club tables with one man to one seat is the ideal arrangement which we wish might be kept but which we are convinced cannot be. When different men suggest seventeen, eighteen, nineteen or twenty-two men at tables of fourteen seats, they simply express the limit, to go beyond which they believe would seriously endanger the social life. For ourselves, we think that it would be unwise even to exceed the proportion of twenty men to fourteen seats...
...interesting, as an index to good books, to note those on which many of the thirty were agreed. Some work of Scott's was selected by almost all, Henry Esmond by seventeen, some work of Victor Hugo's by sixteen, Vanity Fair by fifteen, Don Quixote, Middlemarch, and one of Balzac's by twelve, Tom Jones by ten, Adam Bede, David Copperfield, and one of Miss Austen's by nine, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Kidnapped or David Balfour by seven, the Pickwick Papers and a Tale of Two Cities by six, and Gil Blas by five...