New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-16
STUDY AND SPORT AT HARTARD.

COLLEGE sTATsTIcs-PLANs OF TIE BOAT CLUB
CLASS DAY AND COMMENCEMENT TOPICS.
FRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.l
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. 14.-The University
Catalogue, the app, arance OF which is looked
forward with considerable De or interest ia out
in the shape OF neat blue covered book OF nearly 800
pages TIE TRIBUNE has already given tho main facts
as to the membership of the college and
described the school OF veterinary medicine.
There this year 154 elective open to all
der-graduates besds the regular prescribed work OF
the freshman year. and the lectures read
ngs by professors and their assistants The annual
expenses Of student at Harvard given in the cata
logue as follows: Least, $484; economical, s592 mod
crate, 1881 LIBERAL Sl,360 The price OF college
unfinished vary from $25 for poor in College
House to $500 for of the best in Matthews,
Weld or Holyokc The number of BOOKS in the college
library put down 100000 and ia the divinity school
rs $780,
Tue boating interests of the college have hardly awak
ened from their annual sleep but the candidates for
the &c training Immediately after the Christ
spccuatiOns to the to be selected are
being made freely. The crew suffered
and perhaps rreparabe loss by the with
drawal from college OF Chafant and Hudgens,
who considered the best two men I'm last years
boat The remaining six members of the crew, who are
now in college, and probably oandi ates for place in
years boat as follows: Curtis. 'S3 Cabot,
SO; Sawyer 'S3; Hammond (captaiu), 's3 Perkins,
81; Clark 81 and MImfOrd "a t,ubsttutel For the
place of either Cnalflnt Hudgens most prominent
candidate Is Belhaw, 'S3 who has pulled several
In his classbodt and is considered thoroughly good
oar. few evenings ago the candidates met Mr. Wat
son, 80, VINO advised them to challenge Columbia for
next summer. II may here be said that OF the
proceedings whcn fol owed in way represent the
OPINION " the college, any such were
suggested would without douot be discountenanced
any full meeting OF the boat club. Columbia
would, Mr.. Watson sald almost any
day before the Yale race mentioned by Harvard.
If arranged with Columbia, then Yale would
be forced TO come terms In their arrangements Tor
their race be lett out in the cold The Execu-
live Committee Of the boat club decided to challenge the
Columbia crew. but the college opinion Is nat Yale must
be ruwed at al hazards, aud that tue Columbia is
of ltle Import and be put OF necessary for
the arrangement of the Ylc Much cOmpItiut has
lately been male by the Yale papers because Harvard
mad not formally answered Yaies challenge for the
nua race. Ban ii is Try to consult the ADVISORY
Committee OF Graduates before final answer eau be
Gent, oaly informal could be sent accepting the
challenge.
The freshmen have challenged re Columbia freshmen
TO row next june Charles River. it being in accord
with exis ing understanding that ths year Har
shall the location Of the race. Th freshmen
have TWO Fights at work in the gy unasum, aud the
prospect that SO viii have good average material for
u crew. The candidates for tue sophomore crew,
teen In number have also begun 10 pull the
hydraulic mach.nes but the Other cass
VIII be-a work until after the holidays.
The election Of the ella DAY officers OF the senior class,
recently held was unusually HARMONIOUS Heretofore
II has tn cus,Om hOI ciucu-e>, do an uUln
tied amount of vine pulling, and 10 pledge as many men
as posi- le In the class vote Tor the popular can
dda1e Eight three decided to do away entirely with
tue OHnONlOus melhOls. Nnle there was no wire
pulling or lodging OF men, the societies ed as unit
for tuclT candidates., and the udsJy Pudding Club,
usual. carried of the most hOnos. Tue officers were
dis .nOuteu iUOwS: secretary, Frederick Nichols Of
Boston; INST MARSHAL, Charles T.. Gurus OF Boston;
nird marshal. Shares +. Perrin, OF Fort Smelling, NJ nn
orator. A-tI ur r. Mars Of Newport. r. l.; poet. Henry
G.. Chapman Of New YORK; Odlst A. NJ Lord, or Cam
DlbSr; IVY or"toI Charles L. NIIhn-tht Oh CutDIluSc;
class dag committee, l.. W. MOrelIOn, Of NV
YORK; O. H. hehOron, OF Boston,; IL. Is, jacobs, OF
uate. Mass; class committee, J. X. BracKe l. of
Qmuc}, VI. If. Cushing Ol Hilguam; Edward Cummn =.
one OF the most Noticeable e1furoS 81 tdis
lecfOu Ia tt out OF the teen officers, eleven are from
NcW-N0ra, one Is from the Nest, AMI the o.her from
Rhode Island.
Boaru OF Oyerseers Of the College has recently
vote t. reserve to Itself the n he revolving the de-
gr-es of any gradIaC The college, week after
such dr giees conferred The given this
dctlOn part Of tnls bOl IL often during
uCclncn. wAlcn u disgrace 10
tue corg IA tn IN isn, tnt- means TIA. t.Crc
always me persons n each class wrO are lf cted
~ III punCh, wIicI hOWs Ks WAFER on commencement
scenes. A. It would b.. impossible make Old grad
atcH ave mp ther annual unch and love Ieast on tus
udy, Tue mtthOl "a idpt Il ny tue OFcfFeefS ptODdOy
seemed tue Dust Keep the cuD r0n lips OF tue
NV gr'dda IS l.t-ai Opn.oIs advanced Ia Bos'o"'s
leading uurIas however. viii b. Impossible
college 10 SOko degrees conferred
COusel ucny, nJtW AZ. IN Ilg tue If rls 81 tho over
seerS next cOmmeHcemcnt day promises 10 be as lively
10
L. NJ Appleton. ~, has been elected captain Of the
tootDal te .m Tor 1853.
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