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...third annual contest of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association will be held, as usual, this year in New York. Hitherto Harvard and Columbia have been the only two colleges represented and Harvard has gained the victory each time. At the meeting of the officers after the last contest the secretary was instructed to write to the authorities at West Point and Annapolis, inviting them to send teams to the annual contest. It was also decided to ask Princeton, Cornell and Pennsylvania to take part. There is known to be a great deal of interest in fencing at Cornell...
...first half describes the appearance in the court of King Arthur, at Yuletide, of a stalwart knight all clad in green, who challenges the assembled knights to a strange contest. The green knight offers to allow any man present to deal him a blow with his axe on condition that he (the green knight) may deal a return blow a twelvemonth hence at the Green Chapel. Sir Gawain is the only knight valiant enough to accept the challenge. Accordingly, with a ponderous blow he chops off the green knight's head. But the latter picks his head up again...
...club voted to hold a contest this year to choose a representative to the state contest...
Last week the names of the contestants for the Baird prize in oratory were announced by the faculty. The men are chosen from the senior class and the main interest in the contest each year comes from the fact that the valedictorian and several other commencement speakers will be chosen from these contestants and the winning of the first Baird has usually, but not invariably, been the valedictorian in June...
...football, or the universities, to run even a chance of a repetion of Yale's experience since the Harvard game. Unless then such contradictions come from you would it not be wiser to allow the feeling thus engendered to cool with time rather than to enter upon a contest with these recollections fresh in our minds? Should you still be unwilling to do us justice in this way we have concluded to arrange no game with you. Let me assure you, however, that in case a proper contradiction of these charges is made we shall take pleasure in arranging...