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...members realize that they must do their utmost in preparing for the coming contest, since the Yale freshmen now have the prestige of the victory of last year, and since it is probable that the freshmen of Harvard and Yale will not meet again in a joint debate. At Yale the competition for places on the team is open to all freshmen. The Harvard Freshman Debating Club has not, as yet, decided to extend the competition to any but members, but all members of ninety-nine interested in debating are urged to join before the selection of speakers...
...rejecting of the proposed three mile run will certainly give considerable satisfaction to the spectators of the annual athletic contest, if not to the athletes themselves. A very long race is at best not an exciting contest to watch. The pace is necessarily slow when compared even with the mile run, and before many laps are passed the race generally changes to a procession. Then a three mile race is altogether too great a strain to put upon college athletes, most of whom are under twenty-one years of age. There are probably few men in the University...
...Hall and Jones have decided not to accept the privilege of playing for the championship, the contest for the championship, the contest for that will lie between the winners of the tournament and Denison and Booth. That contest may not be played off until after the Yale match on March...
Tomorow evening the Harvard Fencing Club team will compete in the contest for the Shaw Cup, offered for the team championship of the Amateur Fencers' League. The competition is to take place in the New York Athletic Club's club-house. The contesting teams are: Harvard, A. G. Thacher '97, J. E. Hoffman '96, and J. P. Parker '96; New York Fencers' Club, A. V. Z. Post, Fitzhugh Townsend, and C. S. Tatham; New York Athletic Club, Bothner, Haubold and Cavignac...
With the prospect of a quadrangular freshman race, the freshman crew has a definite aim towards which to direct its efforts. The material for a good crew is this year unusually good, and gives promise of a close and exciting contest on the twenty-sixth of June. The freshmen have had good coaching so far, and are making rapid improvement by hard and earnest work. If the class gives their crew hearty and enthusiastic support from this time on there is no reason in the world why an excellent prospect should not make the final victory a certainty. We shall...