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...awarded to E. M. Rabenold '04, for having done the best work in all three trials. J. Daniels '04, presided. The judges were Professor G. P. Baker '87, I. L. Winter '86, R. L. Lyman '03, S. R. Wrightington '97, and I. Grossman '02. The University has chosen to defend the negative side of the question submitted by Yale: "Resolved, that the history of trades-unionism in the United States for the past twenty years shows a general tendency detrimental to the best interests of the country...
...annual tennis tournament for the championship of Massachusetts will be held on Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 13, 15, 16 and 17, on the grounds of the Longwood Cricket Club, Boston. The championship was held last year by B.C. Wright ex-'03, who will be called upon to defend his title to the challenge cup against the winner of the tournament. Prizes will be awarded the winner of the tournament and the runner...
...play the Lynn Wanderers at 2 o'clock this afternoon on the grounds of the Lynn that the Wanderers have played a University team, and no adequate comparison of the teams can be made. The University team is very weak at batting being, with a few exceptions, unable to defend their wickets with any certainly. The bowling and fielding, however, are fair for so early in the season...
Harvard selected the question and Yale chose to defend the negative. The University team was composed of F. B. Wagner 1L., I. Grossman 2L. and R. LuV. Lyman '03, who gave their opening speeches in the order named. In rebuttal the order was Lyman, Wagner and Grossman. For Yale R. H. Ewell '03 spoke first, A. Fox '03, second and C. D. Lockwood 3L., third. In the rebuttal the order was Fox, Lockwood and Ewell. The main speeches were twelve minutes in length and the rebuttal five. The judges were President Pritchett of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Provost...
Sirs:--The three years' course is a matter of such importance that it seems to me astonishing that your recent editorial dealing therewith has not as yet called forth any reply. I have no desire to defend all the statements of that article in the New York Sun which was the subject of your attack, and which you describe as "a few mistaken assumptions and several chains of false reasoning." The Sun may be totally mistaken in what it says concerning the graduate departments, but it seems to have phrased not only in "readable," but also in reasonable fashion some...