Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been decided to send a team to represent Princeton at the Olympic games to be held in Athens from April 5 to 15. The members of the team are Robert Garrett, Jr., '97, captain of this year's track team, who will compete in the shot-put, throwing the discuss, broad jump, and horizontal bar vault; A. C. Tyler '97, who will enter the pole vault; F. A. Lane '97, who will contest in the 100 metre dash; J. H. Colfelt '99, who will enter the four hundred metre race. The men will sail on Saturday for Naples. From Naples...
...Harvard Forum held a meeting last night in Harvard 1, to discuss informally the subject for the Harvard-Yale debates with the men from the club who are going to compets. Several graduates and old intercollegiate debaters were present...
...Salter of Philadelphia lectured last evening in Sever 11 on "Walt Whitman-his significance as a poet." The lecturer said he would not discuss the poetic value of Whitman's work; he wished merely to show his thoughts. The central point of Whitman's poetry seems to have been the significance of individual existence. He looks on every man as a separate personality, whose place neither in time nor eternity can any other take. This presupposes a peculiar view of human nature. We are used to contrasting the littleness of self with the greatness of nature. Whitman stands at ease...
Joseph H. Sears '89, Walter Camp of Yale, John C. Bell of U. of P., Alexander Moffett and Captain Cochrane of Princeton, Professor Dennis and Captain Beacham of Cornell met at the University Club, New York, Saturday, to discuss plans for a more uniform set of football rules. As the delegates were not authorized to decide anything for the colleges which they represented, nothing definite was done. A compromise between the rules used by U. of P. and Harvard and those used by Yale and Princeton was favored. The next meeting will be March...
...meeting of the junior class was held last evening to discuss plans for the Junior Dinner. A committee will be appointed by the president of the class to have entire charge of the arrangements...