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...open events to which Harvard is invited to send contestants are: fifty yards dash, running high jump, one mile walk, bayonet race, 440 yards dash, putting the shot, 220 yards hurdle race, one mile run, potato race, tug of-war; all handicaps except the bayonet and potato races and tug-of war. The prizes will be solid gold medals to first and silver to second, except in tug of war, in which a gold medal will be given to each man of the winning team. Entrance fee for each man in each event will be fifty cents and should...
...seem a small matter at best, but I see no advantage in a dual league except a trifling assurance that gentlemen ought not need nor ask for. If Yale and Harvard cannot hold games without red tape and cumbrous regulations they ought to "quit." The example of the English universities ought to put us to shame. Every feeling but a desire for good sport and fair play ought to be banished from our athletic fields. Since one conference has resulted in a majestic secret, I repeat, I believe more than half the college would favor no league but a tacit...
...with them. The freshmen probably do not appreciate that Class Day is Seniors' Day. From Thursday to Saturday the college is given up to them and the campus and buildings are entirely at their disposal. Other undergraduates are regarded only as invited guests, and have no claims to consideration except as friends of the seniors. The hosts of the day need the dormitories to hold receptions and spreads in. They may be seriously inconvenienced by failure to secure the rooms they wish for; and other men make it a point to give the seniors all possible and in carrying...
...following officers were elected: President, W. H. Cleminshaw; vice-president, Edwin Duffy; second vice-president, C. J. Du Bois; secretary and treasurer, G. B. Storrs. The three captains form the judiciary committee. Brown's application was withdrawn. The Spaulding ball was adopted, also last year's rules, except in regard to the foul tip, judgement on this being left to the umpire. The following schedule of games was adopted...
...each sport there should be one, two, or three intercollegiate contests, the interest of which should not be lessened by any inferior competitions either before or afterwards." This means that the university nine and eleven should have two or three matches a year with Yale. and no other games except with second and class teams. The reasons for this restriction are that the present training is too hard, that too few men participate in the sports and that "there is demanded of the candidates for the crews and nines an expenditure of time and strength which is inconsistent alike with...