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Many Alumni have together subscribed $500 for the purchase of a cup to be striven for every year in track contests. These athletic games must be held annually sometime in the month of May or June of each year, 1891 to 1899 inclusive, and the winner of the majority of these nine contests will become the possessor of the cup, which is to be known as the University Track Athletic Cup. The time and place for holding each contest, the number and nature of the events, the points that are to count, the rules regulating each contest and each event...
...well enough. Any plan like this, therefore, which seems a tendency in the direction of a dual league, we heartily welcome. This present plan proposed for our track athletics, does not, it is to be supposed, preclude our competing in the Mott Haven games. Let our track athletic team contest in those intercollegiate sports as much as it likes; but first and foremost let us have our single contests with Yale. Let an arrangement be made whereby Harvard shall fight it out first with Yale in every branch of athletics; after that it is time enough to look for contests...
...invitation of the H. A. A. Pritchard, M. A. C., is out West and will not be able to attend the meeting, but Morse, B. A. A., who jumped 5 ft. 11 7-8 in. when Fearing broke the indoor record at the B. A. A. games, will contest, as will Haywood of the M. I. T., who holds the Tech. record of 5 ft. 10 3-4 in. Hallock, M. A. C., another man who has done close on to six feet, will probably come on from New York, though his acceptance has not yet been received. From Wiegand...
...SHAPLEIGH, Sec.FENCING CONTEST.- There will be a meeting, smoker and fencing contest this evening at 7.15. The secretary will be at the club rooms from 3 to 5 p. m. to meet any members who wish to enter the contest...
...have occasionally heard some grumbling that the rule was unnecessarily strict. As a matter of fact the results in the case have more than warranted the increased stringency. Some years ago parents used to complain that their sons, in an attempt to contest when not physically able, were sometimes seriously hurt. The rule which was then passed for a remedy proved insufficient. For a year or so past, it has been found to work very unsatisfactorily. The regulation now in effect was the only reasonable and thorough solution of the difficulty...