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...Boston baseball team has arranged four games with Brown, three with Amherst, and two with Yale...
...resolutions of the recent inter-collegiate athletic conference have called out a chorus of disapproval from several quarters, and it is evidently more than doubtful whether five colleges can be got to approve them. Harvard and Princeton have adopted them. Brown has refuse. There is no chance that Yale will accept them, and even if Columbia and Wesleyan should, the defection of Yale will make any attempt at union nearly impossible. Whether we call Harvard and Yale universities or only college like the rest, they are so much larges, and their stake in the matter is so much greater...
...Brown faculty has refused to adopt the athletic regulations. The Brunonian remarks: "SO far as we have been able to learn, the faculty rejected the resolutions on the ground that while certain restrictions in regard to "professionals" were needed, the provisions of the restrictions for not fairly meet the demands of the case. We cannot see the necessity of placing such restructions-prohibitory in some cases-upon the athletic sports of a large number of colleges, simply for the purpose of helping forward the reformation of certain collegiate foot-ball players who are in the habit of kicking each other...
...Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, on Saturday, George E. Lowell, '83, the president, in the chair, B. W. Macintosh, of Lafayette acting as secretary. Eleven colleges, Harvard, Yale. Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Amherst, Cornell, Lafayette, Legigh, College of the city of New York, and Stephens were represented. Brown was dropped from the list of members, because it has failed to be represented by any competitors at the meets of the last three years. Union college was re-admitted to membership. A programme was arranged for the meeting in May. The date was settled as the 24th, and the place Manhattan...
...dissertation on "Servetus;" to Edward Wheeler Frost, '84, $100 for a dissertation on "The Political Career of Daniel Webster;" to Harry Hubbard, '84, $75 for a dissertation on "The effects of a custom tariff on wages;" and to Lewis Edwards Gates, '84, $75 for a dissertation on "Sir Thomas Brown...