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...favor of admitting the Yale freshmen to the race, while Yale will favor the admission of the Columbia 'Varsity Crew to the great Harvard-Yale race, which has become the leading sporting event of the season in this country. Columbia had a crew last year that defeated the crack eight from Cambridge and would undoubtedly have given Yale a hot race had the two crews been permitted to meet Columbia has attained such excellence in all branches of athletics that there seems to be no reason why her crew should not be considered as worthy to row Harvard and Yale...
...match may be arranged with that club. Both these colleges have flourishing gun clubs that number among their members many good shots; especially is this true of the Cornell Club, among whose members are Mr. Whitney, the champion trap-shot of New York State, and the White brothers, the crack shots of the Ithaca Gun Club. Our men will have to do good work this spring to be able to win victories over such opponents...
...University of Pennsylvania Gua Club has accepted the challange of the Harvard Shooting Club to a match at clay pigeons. The match will take place on the latter club's grounds at Watertown about the middle of May. The men from the Quaker city are said to have a crack team, and without doubt will give our team a hard fight. The Shooting Club's dinner, which was to have come off next month, will probably be postponed to the evening of the day of the match, in honor of the visitors...
Robert Cook, Yale's crack boating coach of many years standing, has been tendered a complimentary dinner by a large number of the sons of that college in recognition of his great services in many a boat race at which Yale was first at the finish. It is well, but we submit that the other gentlemen, professors and tutors, who have also done their best by the institution ought not to be discriminated against. Can any good reason be assigned why - for instance - the worthy occupant of Yale's chair of Moral Philosophy should not be invited by appreciative alumni...
...that in the event of any accident to Stagg, the regular university pitcher, there will be some one to take his place. The outlook for next season is considered here to be very promising. Harvard, the only antagonist Yale really fears, is sadly cripled by the loss of her crack battery, and some of her heaviest batsmen, and it now looks to Yale men as though they would have a walkover...