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...same time and place as those for that meeting, or at my room, 25 Holyoke St. The following are the events: Two hand vault, double trapeze, running high jump, flying rings, rope climbing, horizontal bar, pole vault. Winners at the previous meeting are barred, except in an attempt to break a record. Two prizes are offered in case of five entries. Reserved tickets may be obtained for the Monday Evening Meeting at Bartlett's or at the Co-operative office by paying 25 ets. extra...
...85.The usual delay in starting was repeated, but the audience remained seated in a commendable manner. The first attempt at a drop was a failure. It is claimed that the '85 team were not in position when Dr. Sargent, the referee, gave the word, and therefore was totally unprepared. After some discussion the doctor decided that the pull should be tried over again, giving, as a reason, that Baker of the '84 team was already down before he said the word heave. When the drop came, '85 had the advantage by an inch or two. This they kept for some...
...with a greater degree of interest than any other event in the college aquatic circles of this country. In fact it is looked upon as a connecting link between athletics, past and present, and with it are associated memories dearer than any other to the undergraduate heart. Any attempt to destroy or encroach upon this custom or to destroy its sacredness would be very likely to be treated in a very conservative manner. Thus it was when Columbia desired to enter the charmed circle, and thus the University of Pennsylvania finds it today. A challenge from the former institution...
...consequences would be to get rid of one evil, and at the same time to invite a worse one-chronic discontent among the young men. If anything further is done in the matter would it not be the part of wisdom and prudence to restrict the movement to an attempt to rescue football from the category of exhibitions of brutality? This "sport" seems to us to be most in need of reform. Life would still be worth living for the Harvard undergraduate, even if Yale were shut out from these contests, provided base-ball, the race at New London...
...about by the impracticable set of regulations recently proposed. Yet it is a condition not altogether satisfactory. Harvard still lacks the services of a suitable director of field sports. If she had such a director the prohibition against employing any "professional" trainer would not be so severely felt. The attempt at inter-collegiate faculty regulation of athletics thus it would seem has signally failed. The Harvard faculty has blindly followed this ignis fatuus until it has led it into the swamp where it now finds itself. Little credit has resulted to the college from its efforts, undertaken, we believe, with...