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...several cases different claimants have appeared for the same ground, and in other instances there have been disputes in regard to presumed encroachments by tennis players on the cricket and la crosse fields. The man "Tom," who lays out the courts, seems to have become a self-constituted authority, whose interests extend little beyond his white-wash bucket, and getting the money for his work. The popularity of tennis this spring seems to be on the increase, and numerous claims have been made on the ground available for courts, so that our fields are now closely scored. The distribution...
...appeal has been made for aid for the Assos expedition, the results of whose work are now beginning to be extremely valuable. Work was resumed March 1. $2500 more are required to finish the undertaking. Subscriptions may be sent to Professor C. E. Norton...
...suggestion in regard to Memorial, if the subject is not exhausted: Many have been the complaints about the unpleasant surroundings at the late breakfast table. Every time a man is unfortunate enough to sleep past nine o'clock, he is obliged to breakfast amidst sweepings and dustings and scrubbings, whose general character is not appetizing, to say the least. He is surrounded by a bulwark of chairs piled upon the surrounding tables, and is serenaded by the clatter of plates and hardware. Now all this might be obviated with very little difficulty. Why not have the late breakfast table...
...fresh currents of the warm blood of the West. Let not the Review imagine that, on the other hand, the world of intellectual vigor is bounded on the East by the Hudson-that it has any boundary in fact: let it know that it is a world whose presence is felt everywhere-at Harvard as at Oberlin. Then, dear Review, we may be content to lie down in peace together, and cease our wordy wars about "sectional prejudice...
...Washington yesterday. Gen. P. A. Collins was elected president. Thirty-two States were represented by delegates. Resolutions were passed demanding the recall of Minister Lowell ; and a-letter condemnatory of Lowell's course was read from Wendell Phillips. Representative W. E. Robinson of New York made a demagogical speech whose chief tenor was the condition of the American eagle, "with its beak filled with Lowell garbage." "But the American eagle had been aroused from her ignoble slumber, and the British lion must quail before her" - and further edifying eloquence of a like sort...