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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...until within a few days of the first meeting. For instance, owing to the lateness at which the rules appeared, a bar such as is requisite for carrying out fully the "Fence Rules" adopted could not be procured until a very late hour; and the vaulters justly refused to enter if such a bar was substituted without giving them time to practise with it. In this same event - the two-hand vault - a dispute arose from the fact that one of the contestants had not practised sufficiently under the new rules to know what constituted...
...Enter MR. JOHN BROWN and MISS SARAH JONES, Sophomores.SHE. Come, Jack, you must hurry through your dinner in two hours and a half, for I've engaged you for the first waltz. (Beckoning to the attentive waitress.) Are there really no other soups but Bisc a la Reine and Consomme...
CORNELL College has decided to organize and enter an eight-oared Freshman and a four-oared University crew at the N. A. A. O. college races. The four-oar will consist of W. Gregory, '80, stroke; J. Lewis, '80, 3; J. N. Shinkel, '81, 2; J. W. Warner, '80, bow. Twenty-five Freshmen are working for their class crew...
...last Saturday's meeting of the Athletic Association, although good in comparison with the first, fell far short of last year's standard. The number of entries, to be sure, was encouraging; but, when we take into consideration the number of men in the University who are competent to enter, we have to admit that those who declare that too much time is given to muscular development at Harvard cannot have attended this year's meetings. It is also to be regretted that some of those who did enter seemed to have given little time to previous preparation. The apparent...
DURING the fortnight which has elapsed since the first part of this letter was written, I have learned that Columbia intends to enter an eight and a four, not only in the Metropolitan Association Regatta of Friday, July 4, but also in the N. A. A. O. regatta of a few days later; that Cornell is almost certain to be a competitor in both events on the latter occasion; that Princeton has nine men in training for the same four-oared race; that the proposed prize for class sixes will not be offered before next year; that Newark will probably...