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...postponed until today at 4 o'clock. The winner will hold the Wells cup for one year. The following nine men with handicaps qualified in the trials Thursday: K. B. Day '11, Guild '10, 15 yds,; M. Steinhart '11, 15 yds.; H. Watson '10, 3 yrds.; W. F. Whither...
...live near the Yard will miss his picturesque figure, like that of a handsome Andrew Jackson, in long raincoat and soft hat, striding along with the familiar swing, and flinging across the way the brusque greeting, "How d'ye, neighbor?" The College Chapel will miss him, whither he used to repair daily to take what he liked to call his "moral bath, as needful, sir, as the other." He was the impersonation of health, vigor, and purity, moral as well as physical and intellectual. He was an Elizabethan man in his qualities and temperament: a poet, above all, of keen...
...Ralph W. Hicks '96 to learn of his death Monday, Feb. 7, at Saranac Lake, N. Y. Although threatened with consumption it was not known that the disease had so far advanced as to make his end near. He himself was planing his return to Cambridge from the Adirondacks, whither he had gone for a change of air when the fatal turn came. Mr. Hicks's mother who had gone to accompany him back was present and the many new friends he had made while there were ready with sympathy and help...
...known, not only as a strong Christian man, but as a leading athlete, being last year in the judgment of Caspar Whitney the best football centre in the country, he should meet with a hearty reception. He will speak on some phase of the religious work in China, whither he is to go in the spring as a missionary. The meeting is at 6.45 in Holden Chapel, and open to all members of the University...
...took possession of Jamestown. Bacon, advancing upon the town, completely routed Berkeley and burned the town. Shortly after this Bacon himself died. On the news of his death the rebellion collapsed with astonishing suddenness, and the ringleaders were put to death. Berkeley himself died in 1677 in England, whither he had gone to answer for his abuses...