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...more interesting than in former years. The weights for the wrestling events will be, heavy, above 150; middle, 150 limit; light, 135 limit and special, 125 limit. The weights for the sparring will be the same as appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON. There will also be a shot putting contest at this meeting...
...Engineering News Publishing Company of New York has just made its annual offer of prizes for the best graduating theses of '93. The contest is open to 1893 Graduates in any Engineering course of any college in the United States or Canada...
...question of an international college boat race at the World's Fair has caused considerable comment from the press of the country, which with hardly an exception favors the admission of Cornell some way or other into the contest. It is stated that the winner of the Oxford Cambridge race would be unwilling to row the winner of the Harvard-Yale race, for by so doing the championship of the world would still remain unsettled, if Cornell chose to dispute the claim and insist upon rowing the English crew herself...
There are three ways in which the question can be settled. The winners of the Harvard-Yale and Oxford-Cambridge races could race together merely to test the relative abilities of those four colleges. This would probably be popularly known as a contest for the world's championship though such a claim would be manifestly unjust to Cornell if allowed. But if the proposed contest should come off at all it is far more likely that the English Crew, the Cornell crew and the winner of the Harvard-Yale contest will row in a triangular race. A third...
...Harvard-Yale debate are being completed in a most satisfactory fashion and there is every reason to expect that the debate will meet with good success. The introduction of judges will add a much greater interest to the debate, for it will then be more of an actual contest. The managers of the debate have shown good judgement in appealing to the support of graduate classes and it is pleasing to note the interest which graduates have evinced in the matter. The proposition to limit the competitors for the next debate to members of the Union is a commendable...