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...Whist Club, and open to all members of the University, was not duly announced. The tournament has therefore been postponed until Dec. 7th. The drawings for the preliminary round will then be made from the name of all those who have at any time entered. Notice of the contestants will be given in the CRIMSON on Dec. 8th, The committee thinks that many men who are interested in chess do not enter because they are not confident enough in their own powers. All such are earnestly requested not to hang back. It is hoped that even more men will enter...
...meeting of the Board of Managers of the Metropolitan Association of A. A. U. on Monday, it was decided that all athletes competing in the Seventh Regiment games next Saturday evening in New York shall be debarred from entering any athletic contest under the A. A. U. rules. The reason given is that the prizes offered by the Seventh Regiment A. A., are articles of jewelry which is against the rules of the Union...
...award for the best oration in the contest for the Leffingwell prize at Amherst has been awarded to W. H. Wood, of Grand Rapids, Mich., whose subject was "Political Corruption...
...like men who had been left to work out their own salvation. All who saw the game must have felt that it was a burning shame that men who showed so plainly that they could have accomplished so much should have been left to struggle in a hopeless individual contest against eleven men playing as one, and all through lack of proper coaching. It is this feeling, the protest against the needless sacrifice of excellent material, that gives the single touch of bitterness to our defeat...
...been often predicted that Yale would win the contest by her team work, and such proved to be the case. The individual work of the Yale eleven seemed to be, and was, brilliant. But what really gave it the appearance of overmatching Harvard's individual play was the strength of the team work which was the ground work of everything and the secret of Yale's signal success. A Harvard opinion would be that the Harvard eleven, trained to the beautiful team game which Yale showed, would have been superior to the Yale eleven with equally good team work...