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...play off of the ties in the chess tournament resulted as follows: In the first section Crane beat Burlinham by default: in the second section Baker beat H. G. Nichols. The men in the final round are Crane, Hawes, Adams, Baker, Irwin and F. W. Nicolls...
...freshman Glee club has been finally organized and is now practicing regularly for the first concert. The following officers have been elected: President, F. H. Gade; vice-president, J. H. Parker; secretary, C. K. Cummings; leader, S. E. Farwell. The other members are Abbott, Batchelder, Battelle, Bennett, Bisbee, Broughton, Burditt, Cary, Dunn, Hallowell, Hand, Harrison, Henshaw, Hoadley, Howard, Jose, Keyes, Marvin, Nutter, Post, Purrington, H. B. Smith, Sewall, Strong, Sturgis, Sears, Waters, Webster, Whyte, Wilder. As usual the club is rather weak in first tenors and strong in first bases. It has proved more enterprising than the '92 club, which...
...trip as that proposed is contrary to the whole policy of Harvard-that it is not her desire to advertise herself through any one of her organizations. The excuse given is hardly sound, for if the argument were consistently carried out intercollegiate athletics would be entirely abolished. In the first place we fail to see the unwisdom in allowing such an advertisement as Glee club trip. However much some may believe the contrary, a club such as that which went west last Christmas is no discreditable representative of Harvard dignity and excellence, and there is as yet no reason...
...Seth Low will be inaugurated as president of Columbia college the first week in February...
...Dana, '91, who has been elected captain of the Princeton nine for this year, is one of the best first basemen Princeton has ever had. In the spring of '86 he played first base for the first part of the season, and then center field, on the Exeter academy nine, which defeated Andover seven to six. He was one of the heaviest batters on the team. He passed his examinations for Princeton at the end of that year but did not enter college until the fall of '87. In the spring of '88 he was first baseman on the Princeton...