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...This evening (Sept. 30, 1860) is the anniversary for the foot-ball fight between freshmen and other under-graduates; but the contest has grown so savage of late years that the faculty voted, July 2, to prohibit the encounter to night, and the undergraduates decided to have a closing service. Accordingly before night one of the express wagons was seen carrying a drum which was left at the end of the Cambridge Common. After tea the Delta and its vicinity was not thronged, as usual on the first Monday evening, with students in their most ragged attire and with spectators...
Then came the sparring, which was in the main well contested and scientific, although several of the bouts degenerated into the regions of slugging. Gaines won the first bout, feather-weight, in very good style, using his left hand to especial advantage. The second bout between E. Grew, H., '89, and J. D. Williams, was the sharpest and most one sided contest of the day. Grew was beaten in the first, although he stood up for the second and third rounds. In the second round the made a brace which availed him nothing. He was knocked out in the third...
...will be welcomed. But the reader's enthusiasm is rather dampened when he finds that he has once more to crowd himself into Sever 11. We think it unfortunate that the Natural History Society and Dr. Farnham are to tug with each other for audiences, but suppose that the contest was not to be avoided. With the various seminars and readings the Symphony Concert and the lecture on "Notoriety in Art," the coming week promises to be both enjoyable and instructive...
Kohler of Pennsylvania, Hamilton of Yale, Rinton of Columbia and Dean of Harvard will contest the two-mile bicycle race at the Mott Haven games...
Twelve men from the different classes in college, who were formerly students of Phillips Exeter, have offered a gold medal to be competed for by four representatives from each of the two literary societies of Exeter - the G. L. Soule and Golden Branch Society. The contest is to be one of declamation, and is to take place the last week of May. In the issue of this contest be successful, it is very probable that the prize will be renewed every year. - Princetonian...