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Delegates from Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Union College, New York University and Haverford met in the Columbia Gymnasium on Wednesday and formed an intercollegiate gymnastic association. Harvard was not represented, but will join the association and will send a team to the meet which will probably be held next March at the Columbia Gymnasium. Temporary officers were elected and a committee was appointed to draw up a constitution and by-laws. The competition will be on parallel and horizontal bars, on swinging rings and horses and in tumbling and club swinging...
...past year of the Social Union was successful in that there was a marked increase of instructors and pupils in each department over the preceding year. The membership between October and May consisted of sixty men and one hundred and seventeen women, and the total attendance was 3,062. In all there were 34 classes in English, history, languages, mathematics, and natural science, in addition to seven special classes in music. As a result of the spirit manifested throughout the year, nine dramatic entertainments, two concerts and an operetta were given by the members...
...about of a series of debates between various college debating organizations in order to afford opportunities for public speaking, which have heretofore been lacking. Hitherto the various debating organizations have been more or less in conflict, but, under the new system, they will all work together with the Yale Union as the central organization of the University. At the meetings of the union, parliamentary law is strictly observed and a careful record of each meeting is kept. This year a great deal of enthusiasm has been manifested by the members of the union and the sharpness and vigor of their...
...Copeland will deliver a lecture on Thackeray in Sever 11, this afternoon at four o'clock. This lecture is the third of a series of six that Mr. Copeland is giving for the benefit of the Prospect Union. Single tickets are fifty cents and may be secured at the door...
...Prospect Union Course. III. Lecture on Thackeray. Mr. Copeland. Sever 11, 4 p.m. Open to the public. Admission by tickets only...