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...managers of the intercollegiate chess tournament which is to take place in New York during the vacation have issued a large poster announcing the tournament and stating a price of admission. Here is an admirable effort to give to a contest of brains a prominence not unlike that of an athletic game. While it will not attract as much popular interest as the more spectacular event, it is well deserving of support and Harvard men who are in New York at the time will do well to give their representatives the encouragement of their presence...
...second annual debate between Yale and Princeton was held at Princeton on Friday evening. Yale won the contest by a majority vote of the judges...
...Yale-Princeton debate occurs here on Friday night of this week. This promises to be an interesting contest, for the speakers on both sides have all had experience in debating, and Princeton's especially, are all three noted prize winners in Whig and Clio Halls, besides being prominent in other spheres of activity. However, they are all undergraduates and because of this fact it is though that Yale's representatives one of whom is a Law School man and another a theologian, will be superior. However, Princeton's record in debating in the past has been her pride and every...
...Germantown, Pa. In freshman year he won in Whig Hall first prize in debate and second in essay. In sophomore year he was Washington's Birthday debater from his class. Junior year he won first prize in essay in hall, and this year second in the senior oratorical contest...
There is a very strong probability that Yale will send a crew to England next year to compete with the winner of the Oxford-Cambridge contest. The matter has been long talked over; but it will be finally settled within the next six weeks. Yale feels that this is a most favorable year to send the crew. Mr. Cook could give more time to coaching the crew than ever before. Then Yale has in Treadway an exceptionally good captain. He has rowed on two winning 'varsity crews and his experience will be of great value to the present crew...