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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fact is that the Union needs a thorough revising, so to speak. It is not necessary or expedient to start a new debating society. We have here a fairly old and large society which can be made what is wanted. Membership should not be granted so easily; the requirements should be harder so that the best and only the best material is obtained. This is the first and apparently the greatest change needed. When this is made and divers others and the Union is imbued with more life and spirit, it can expect to stand on a higher level than...
...final arrangements for the Western trip of the Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs are now complete and the clubs will start from Boston tomorrow morning in time to reach New York for the concert there at 8 o'clock. The Pennsylvania Railroad, represented by Mr. Rodney Macdonough, will conduct the trip on the plan of the Raymond excursions; this makes the third trip which Mr. Macdonough has conducted for the Glee Club so that he has a friendly interest in the men entirely aside from his business interest. Of course, the social side of the trip is not thoroughly mapped...
...exact distance of the course will be five and a quarter miles. The start will be made at 3.45 o'clock sharp from in front of the gymnasium. From there the course will be across the Common to Concord Avenue to Walden Street; from there across the fields in a northerly direction to the junction of the Fitchburg Railroad with the Watertown branch where the runners will be checked; up the Fitchburg to the Glaeialis where the runners will be checked a second time; from there in a south westerly direction to Fresh Pond, around Fresh Pond drive to Cushing...
Professor Agassiz will start in January on a three months' yachting cruise in the Carribean Sea to study the animal life there. He will be accompanied by A. G. Mayer of the Graduate School...
Captain King of the Princeton baseball +++ has already begun preparations for the coming athletic season. He has issued a notice requesting all candidates to hand in their names and positions. He has good material to start with. The entire nine of last year, except the battery, is in college. Of course the severest loss is felt in the battery. However, Drake and Humphreys, who were the substitute battery last year, are both in college this year. Their record last season was almost as good as that of Young and Brown. It is believed that with another season's practice they...