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...events took place, except the finals of the 220-yards dash, which were postponed until Monday on account of darkness. The hurdle races had very few entries. The best individual performance was by H. F. Cochems 3L, who put the shot 42 feet 1-2 inches, thus breaking the previous Harvard record of 40 feet, 10 1-2 inches. Cochems, however, is ineligible to compete in any intercollegiate games on account of the four-year rule...
...fourth annual intercollegiate tournament begins today on the links of the Garden City Golf Club. In the previous tournaments Yale has won the cup twice and Harvard once. Should Yale win it again this year it will become her permanent property. Princeton, Harvard, and Yale, and possibly Columbia and Pennsylvania will send teams of six men each to compete in match play for for the college championship...
Professor Arthur Twining Hadley, was inaugurated President of Yale yesterday afternoon. The innovations introduced in the ceremonies were in accord with the departure from tradition in the selection of a layman to fill the presidential office. The Latin oration, which has been pronounced at every previous inauguration, was omitted this year, and in its stead a chorus of one hundred Yale undergraduates, accompanied by a symphony orchestra of fifty pieces, was introduced. The exercises, which were very simple, consisted of a march to the chapel, where the inauguration oath was administered by the Reverend Joseph H. Twitchell, an address...
...previous years, Mr. Copeland will this year conduct voluntary classes in reading and speaking. He will meet Graduates Mondays at 12, in Sever B; Seniors and Juniors on Tuesdays at 12, in Sever 1, and on Wednesdays at 11, in Sever 2; Sophomores on Wednesdays at 12, in Sever 1; Freshmen on Thursdays at 11 and 12, in Sever 1; on Fridays at 11, in Sever 11; on Fridays at 12, in Sever...
...Boston and studied law at the Harvard Law School, beginning practice in Detroit in 1853. In 1869 he was assistant United States district attorney, served on the school board and public library committee, was elected judge of the Wayne Circuit Court in 1882, and filled that office several years. Previous to this time he had served as supreme court reporter, gaining a state reputation and wide experience. He also published five volumes of Michigan supreme court reports...