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...DEAR SIR: - A joint committee of the Oxford University Athletic Club and the Cambridge University Athletic Club, at a conference held at Oxford, resolved to send a challenge to the universities of Yale and Harvard, inviting them to partake in an athletic competition, to take place in America at some date in the autumn as may mutually be agreed upon...
...have already anticipated my application of this thought - your duty in public service. The upturning of crime and degradation in our greatest city suggests a joint action, and in that our brethren have been in the van. There, however, the worst feature was not the crime of the criminal or the degradation of already degraded office holders, but the lethargy of the city, the silent abetting of masses of intelligent people of the crimes, the selfishness of business men, householders who would rather bribe than have their peace disturbed. We have yet to learn that every citizen has his public...
...some time past the question of renewing Andover-Exeter athletic games has been under discussion by a joint committee of graduates from the two schools. At a recent meeting the committee wrote to each school, asking that a mass meeting be held on Thursday of this week to vote whether it favored a renewal of the games, beginning with next fall...
...mass meetings suggested by the joint committee from Exeter and Andover should surely result in the renewal of athletic contests between the two schools. It is absurd that such leading preparatory schools in the country should any longer be kept at variance merely for lack of general will to come to some agreement. In any league which may be now formed, it should not prove difficult to guard against a repetition of the conditions which led to the present separation. Out of experience, the schools should have learned sufficient wisdom to direct with success their mutual efforts toward maintaining friendly...
OXFORD, ENG., June 5. - Oxford and Cambridge will send a team of picked athletes to America in September next to meet a picked team from Yale and Harvard. A joint committee of both the English colleges which has been considering the University of Pennsylvania's challenge, today cabled a challenge to Yale and Harvard, and later mailed a formal challenge...