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...Harvard in both doubles and singles. Play was begun on Tuesday afternoon ; our double team, Presbrey, '85, and Taylor, '86, meeting the Amherst men and defeating them by a score of 6-0, 6-4. That afternoon, also, the single play was inaugurated, Presbrey retiring, after a well fought contest with Thorne, of Yale. Taylor, meanwhile defeated Knapp of Yale. On Wednesday the doubles were finished, our reprerentatives defeating teams from Trinity 6-1, 6-2, Brown 6-1, 6-5, and Yale, 5-6, 6-4, 6-2. The first two sets with Yale were very closely contested, that...
...second preliminary contest for the Pierian Sodality will take place tomorrow evening...
...gentleman who offered, through the Harvard Athletic Association, the prizes for general development last year, desires to repeat the offer. The competition for many of the prizes and honors of the H. A. A. is practically limited to the strongest and largest men. And the training for the contest in which they are won is often brief and in spurts. On this account, the association deems it important that men of average or less than average strength should receive some special encouragement to faithful and steady work in the gymnasium and in the field. And it is only as another...
...long distance and accurate throwing of the Lacrosse ball. The rate throwing of the lacrosse ball. The cups offered will resemble those given by the H. A. A. at its winter meetings, and the competition is to take place in about two weeks. The precise terms of the proposed contest will be stated shortly...
...president of the senate and has the power to veto all its decisions. The question of the college remaining a member of the Inter-collegiate League was laid before the senate on Friday last. The senate decided almost unanimously to allow the college team to enter the intercollegiate contest. President Seelve is satisfied with the way things have gone thus far, and expects to have no further trouble in regard to discipline. The students are well pleased with this innovation...