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...Reed, inter-collegiate bicycle champion for 1883, has written a long letter to the Acta Columbiana in which he unwisely condemns the action of the delegates at the recent meeting of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association in deciding to have the two mile bicycle race in future run in heats. Mr. Reed says that a two mile race is particularly exhausting and claims that hardly anyone is strong enough to ride two two-mile heats in an afternoon. He mentions that "in 1883 the winner spent the night after the race in an agony, fighting for breath with the assistance...
...support our assertion in Saturday's issue that Columbia held the same opinion of Pennsylvania's action as the HERALD CRIMSON we print the following extracts from the editorial column of the latest Acta Columbiana. "The University of Pennsylvania has evibecome tired of such unsatisfactory victories as those she has won in the past few years over Princeton, and now longs for greater glory. To say the least, the university has taken a strange way of winning renown. And yet when we consider that it is the U. of Penn. that has invented this new way of becoming champion oarsmen...
...second annual meeting of the Inter-Collegiate Press Association was held at Cambridge on Thursday, Dec. 27. The following papers were represented: The Acta Columbiana by Mr.Anderson; The Brunonian by Messrs. Wakeman, Green and Gough; The University Magazine; The Amherst Student by Mr. Parker, and the HERALDCRIMSON by Mr. Hobbs and Mr. Norton. The other papers belonging to the I. P. A. were unable to send delegates. The meeting was called to order by Mr. Parker, the vice-president. A letter was read from Mr. J. K. Bangs, the president, regretting his absence. No new members had applied for election...
Oxford caps have almost entirely disappeared from college. [Acta Columbiana...
...following is the beginning of a story in the last Acta Columbiana: "The speaker was a handsome young senior whose large brown eyes, sparkling with good humor, showed him at once to be one of that happy-go-lucky class of collegians whose whole soul is wrapped up in the present; one whose past has no regrets, whose future causes no uneasiness...