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Today the delegates to the Intercollegiate Athletic Association will meet in New York to make arrangements for the games to be held the last Saturday in May. Several important matters will come up for decision. The most pressing of these, as we understand, are the questions of adding, as events, the two-mile safety-bicycle race, and the putting the weight (56 pounds), and of excluding the tug-of-war. This last question is really the one which will most affect Harvard if she continues to be a member of the Intercollegiate Association. Harvard's attitude on this matter...
Unless some unforeseen circumstances arise, Harvard will very likely receive another bequest-this time from the generous gift of the late Mr. Fayerweather. We understand that the legacy for Harvard is not restricted by many conditions, but may be applied for almost any special object which the authorities may think proper. It will not be hard to find uses for the money; on the contrary, the difficulty will be to decide, among so many needs, which is the most pressing...
...instructorship in rowing which the Corporation declared itself willing to create. We learn in fact that the Boat Club, in whose hands the matter was left, has taken no action. What their exact stand on the question is seems uncertain-so uncertain as to raise a doubt whether they understand exactly how the case is. Perhaps the executive officers of the Boat Club share, with many others in college, the opinion that an instructor in rowing must necessarily be the coach of the 'varsity crew. If such is their understanding, we do not wonder at their inaction; for it seems...
...London or not? Unless the money is raised by a certain time, the athletic committee has said that the crew shall not go to New London. That decision seems to be clear enough to the average student, but is evident that the freshmen do not understand it. If they have sense, they will take in the situation now, once for all, and will show enough energy and generosity to give their crew a race with Columbia...
...Boston Herald of yesterday there appeared a long article relating to the three years course. It stated that since the final vote on the matter rested with the Overseers, and since the Overseers are elected by the Alumni, in order that the Alumni may fully understand the position taken by the Faculty, "a circular has been sent by the University to every Alumnus, setting forth the problem which the college Faculty was called upon to solve, and of the considerations which determined its action." However admirable such a scheme might be, the facts of the case are that no such...