The tennis courts on Jarvis Field were marked out on Saturday.
The foundations for the new iron seats have been laid on Holmes Field.
The 'Varsity Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs gave a concert in Eliot Hall, Jamaica Plain, Saturday night.
The B. A. A. has arranged to row the New York A. C. sometime in June either at Travers Island or on the Charles.
E. G. Ham '94, who is now in the classical department at Harvard has accepted a Latin instructorship at Dartmouth.
G. W. Orton of the Unversity of Pennsylvania won the cross country run for the championship of America on Saturday.
Mr. H. H. Crocker '74, Mr. F. G. Peabody '69 and Mr. R. C. Watson '69 watched the 'Varsity crew row from the launch Saturday.
The Cercle Francais owes much of the success of "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" to C. L. Smith '97, who arranged the original music and composed several dances especially for its performance. The orchestration by Mr. W. R. Spalding of the Musical Department also deserves credit.
Fletcher Dobyns '98 delivered an address at the Twentieth Century Club, Boston, on Saturday. His subject was "Public Spirit Among Harvard Students."
Moulton rowed with the Junior crew Saturday taking Fuller's place at 5. Fuller was put in at 3, Barnes going out of the boat. The squad is to be cut down to ten men today.
Three men have been kept as candidates for the Freshman coxswain-Whitney, Goodrich and Converse. These men are each given two days a week on the water with the crew.
A change was made in the '99 crew Saturday. Adams was taken from 3 and Blake put in his place. Boardman has returned to the crew but was unable to row, owing to a bad cold.
Mr. Lehmann was a guest of the Papyrus Club Saturday evening, and in answer to a speech by B. G. Kimball '37 spoke in the interest of athletics and of rowing in particular. S. G. Wells '86 was also present.
The point-winners which Yale has lost from her track team this year beside Captain Sheldon, are Hickok and Cross from the weights, Hatch from the hurdles, Allis from the pole vault, and Thrall from the walk.
A plan has been suggested for a memorial of Charles Eliot, in view of his great service to Boston in connection with the Metropolitan Park System. Revere Beach has been suggested as the most suitable site for the memorial, as it was through his means that the beautiful reservation there was constructed.
The Oxford crew won the four and a quarter mile race from Cambridge Saturday by two and a third lengths. For the first mile the race was very close, but from this point the Oxford crew drew steadily ahead, and by the end of the third mile the result was assured. Oxford also won by a small margin in the track games.
A petition is being circulated to have the post office moved from its present location to more commodious quarters in the handsome new block about to be erected by the Cambridge Savings Bank on Dunster Street. Such a move would doubtless be advantageous, as the post office would thereby gain not only much larger and handsomer quarters but a more convenient location.
Owing to the absence of Heath, Glidden and Boardman, the order of the Freshman crew lately has been very unsettled. Before the regular crew practice Saturday, Gray and Tilton, and Palmer and Clark went out in pair-oars, the former being coached by Townsend, the latter by Derby of last year's 'Varsity eight. The crew rowed as follows: Stroke, Byrd; 7, Higginson; 6, Gray; 5, Tilton; 4, Swain; 3, Biddle; 2, Brown; bow, Saltonstall.
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