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Yale is finding much difficulty in making up a boat this year; only two of last year's crew are in any fit condition to work.-Princetonian...
There is a surplus of between thirty and forty dollars after paying the expenses of the class eleven. This will be handed over to the class committee, to be used as they see fit for the interests of the class, unless five men object to me before Wednesday. If objection is made a class meeting will be called to dispose of the surplus...
...Academy preparatory schools, Exeter and Andover, seem to be undergoing a radical change in the numbers which they are sending respectively to Yale and Harvard. Exeter, which formerly had the name of being the Harvard preperatory school, is now sending many students to Yale, while Andover, which used to fit her men almost exclusively for Yale, has become a good feeder for Harvard. The result is that while the proportion sent from the two schools to Harvard and Yale has evened up a great deal, neither college has gained more than the other in actual numbers from the two schools...
...athletic committee for a team to go to New York bearing the name of Harvard. We saw no objection to a few members of the B. A. A. going as such, to play a game of foot ball whenever they pleased, but the fact that certain persons have seen fit to characterize the proposed game as practically a championship game between Harvard and Princeton, seemed to change the conditions, seemed to change the conditions entirely. We were not astonished in the least when we heard that the Harvard men had given up the trip, for it was no part...
...many a student now enters Harvard who cannot pass the entrance examinations at Yale, Brown, Amherst, etc.," the writer of the letter says that at his school the preparation for no college is so severe as that for Harvard. He also says that many a tutor will engage to fit a boy for Brown. Amherst or any of the "similar colleges" in one year less than he will engage to fit a boy for Harvard or Yale. He ends by citing an instance of a student who had passed the admission examinations to Boston University, but who decided...