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Twelve members of the club met at Watertown yesterday afternoon. The shooting was much better than at any of the previous meets, the clay-bird scores especially running very high. The matches were under the direction of Mr. W. H. Slocum; scoring by Mr. S. C. Jones. Below is the summary of events...
...excitement caused by the Princetonian's campaign has been very great. The votes in opposition numbered a scant dozen, and the position of boating in the college is rendered more stable than ever. About 40 men are now in training for the crew under the direction of Mr. Bird...
PRINCETON BOATING.The following have been elected officers of the Princeton Boating Association: Captain, C. W. Bird; president, Grier Hersch; vice-president, F.S.Hicks; treasurer, W. F. Jackson; secretary, M. S. Bevan. The question of the advisability of supporting a crew has been a mooted one in the college ever since the defeats sustained last spring. Strong articles in opposition to boating have appeared in the college press, and a stubborn resistance was anticipated in the meeting by the boating men. The elections were made, however, without opposition, and a motion was carried to sustain a crew. The applications for positions...
...costumes of the 'Birds' were probably less conventional and more picturesque than those actually employed by Aristophanes and their ornithological accuracy was secured as nearly as possible by Prof. Newton. Their dress consisted of a bird's head with an appropriate beak, covering the head of the actor, except an oval opening for his face, and wings reaching from the shoulders to the knees and enveloping the arms, by which they were moved from within. Some of the birds had long necks extending several feet above the heads of the actors; these were swans, a spoon-ball, and a gorgeous...
...annual convention was held at the Fifth-avenue Hotel on December 27. Five colleges were represented: Bowdoin by R. I. Tompso; Cornell by Carl A. Raht and F. G. Schofield; Princeton by C. W. Bird; wesleyan by T. R. Hoyt; and the University of Pennsylvania by Clemens Jones and W. McP. Homer. The following gentlemen were elected as officers for the ensuing year: C. W. Bird of Princeton, president; R. I. Thompson of Bowdoin, vice-president; C. Jones of Pennsylvania, secretary; F. G. Schofield of Cornell, treasurer; and W. G. Reed of Bowdion, R. L. Hart of Pennsylvania...