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...limited number of tickets to the sparring exhibition to be held at the Crib Club this week will be on sale to the members of the university at 38 Broad street. Price, $2.50 each...
...Association last evening, it was decided to hold the Winter meetings on March 10, 17 and 24, the last two days to be "ladies' days." The programme for the three days will be the same as of last year with the addition on the second day of the running broad jump. A general excellence prize will be given, but the events to be included in this contest are not yet decided on. A prize for general excellence in sparring has also been offered by a gentleman connected with the university...
...well-clad and suave Harvard student now dines in a splendid cathedral room sixty feet broad by one hundred and forty-nine feet long and measuring eighty feet to the roof. The students' wants are attended to by colored waiters, who can always be bribed by a little douceur. The sunlight falls through 'storied windows richly dight,' and stains with Iris the snowy linen of fifty tables. On six courses dines the aesthetic Harvard man; and he often feels disposed to grumble at destiny if his pocket-book will not permit him to indulge in such extras as fresh salmon...
...played it with two sticks, each about two and a half feet long, with the end about the size of a large spoon. The Sioux played with but one stick about four feet long. The sticks used today are usually four feet and a half long and nine inches broad near the end. The general features of the game are the same today as they were centuries ago. The players were not allowed to touch the ball with their hands; the body-checking was about the same, a little more vigorous perhaps; when a goal was made the ball...
...Yale papers the Record bravely holds to its original opinion that the Yale faculty did an unwise thing in refusing to accede to President Eliot's request in regard to playing with professionals. "It is high time," it says, "however awkward it might be for our nine, that a broad boundary be put between college athletes and professionals. Though we realize perfectly that our nine, deprived of the practice it gets against professionals, would play a much poorer game than at present, and probably would not meet as good amateur nines as Harvard has at hand, still there...