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Beginning with the new year there goes into effect a new set of rules to govern athletics at Harvard. They are identical with those adopted by Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania for their annual football contest. As there is a great deal of misunderstanding with regard to them, it seems advisable to print them together with an interpretation or two. There are three rules that have an important effect on our athletics. They are as follows...
...debate to be held next month in Sanders Theatre will be the fifth contest of the kind between Harvard and Yale. The first one was held in Sanders Theatre January 14, 1892. The debaters were, for Yale, R. R. Upton, W. E. Thoms and W. P. Aiken; for Harvard, G. P. Costigan, Jr., R. C. Surbridge and A. P Stone. The subject was: "Resolved, That a young man, casting his first ballot in 1892, should vote for the nominees of the Democratic party." No decision was rendered...
...usual begin immediately after the Christmas recess. Captain Wheelwright is very anxious to have the heavy men come out early in the year and train for the hammer and shot events. Last year Harvard experienced the humiliation of sending a team to New York with no one to contest in the hammer throwing and with but one man to put the shot. This would not have been so if some of the large men who started to train about two weeks before the games had come out sooner...
...game was the only one practicable. Pennsylvania, however, could do no better for she could not gain against Harvard's defense by her rushes and was compelled to kick. The game which was marked by frequent rushes in the first half became therefore in the second largely a kicking contest...
...bounds but a Pennsylvania man was on it and the ball was within ten yards of Harvard's goal. A rush carried it to the 4 yard line, and then Brooke scored a touchdown but missed the goal. Score, 8 to 4 in Harvard's favor, and the contest grew...