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...Harvard-Yale debate which is to take place tomorrow night in the Hyperion Theatre, New Haven, promises to be an interesting and well arranged contest. Hon. Chauncy M. Depew will preside. Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia, Governor Brown of Rhode Island, and Dr. W. R. Rainsford of New York have been chosen judges. After the debate a reception and banquet will be given by the Yale Union to the speakers, judges, and visiting Harvard...
After the class races comes the Graduates' Cup kicking contest. In addition to this the football management will offer prizes for accurate punting, place and drop kicking, and for the best kicking under difficult conditions...
...meeting of delegates met in New York last week to arrange an intercollegiate fencing contest. Columbia's representative was L. M. Lawson. A. G. Thatcher was the delegate from the Harvard Fencing Club. Yale failed to send a delegate. A series of tournaments was arranged to be held in New York and Boston alternately. A silver cup has been offered by two prominent New York fencers to be awarded to the winning team...
...Jersey Athletic Club has sent out invitations to Harvard, Yale, Princeton and U. of P. to contest in a team race to be held in June, similar to the one which was run last year. It is not yet certain whether the race will come off, as none of the colleges have yet been heard from...
Again we wish to speak of the importance of the competitive debate tonight as the initial step in the contest with Yale. When Harvard and Yale first met in debate the contrast between the trios of debaters was almost painful, but steadily the contrast has been growing less. Harvard has not lost ground, she has, in fact, noticeably improved; but Yale has improved still more and it is only a question of time, if the present rate of improvement on both sides is allowed to continue, when Yale will prove herself superior to Harvard in debate...