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...More, A. M. '93, covers ground more threshed out, and tells a more practical and less romantic story. It is ably and comprehensively written, and is also marked by generosity of treatment. The public side of Franklin is made prominent, but the author also discusses his religion at some length. The cavils against his character he considers are refuted by the eulogy of Washington. It is pleasant to find two books on much criticized men of the past which express such liberal views...
...alternate. For Yale F. H. Sincerbeaux '02, M. Trowbridge '02, and C. W. Merriam '01, will speak in the order named in the first speeches. The order of rebuttal will be: Sincerbeaux, Merriam and Trowbridge. R. W. Ewell '03, is alternate. The main speeches will be twelve minutes in length; the rebuttal speeches five. The judges will be: Mr. William B. Hornblower, of New York; Judge Addison Brown, of the United States District Court; and Mr. Oscar S Straus, United States minister to Turkey. General Curtis Guild '81, of Boston, will preside...
...tournament this year will be played under entirely new conditions. It was voted at the last annual meeting of the association to change the length of the tournament from six to three days, and to increase the number of men on each team from two to four. This will do away with the old method of having each man play every other man, and will substitute team matches between the colleges...
...annual run for the intercollegiate cross country championship will be held today at New York, over the Morris Park steeple-chase course. Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Columbia will compete. Terms of ten men have been entered, of whom six will run. The length of the course will be six and two-third miles, and will include forty obstacles, consisting of the famous Liver-pool jump, hedges, water jump, and ditches...
...intercollegiate debating committee is getting out a programme for the Harvard-Yale debate, some twenty pages in length, which will be devoted to the debating interests at Harvard. Several pages will be given to an exposition of the system of class clubs and a description of the University Debating club with its functions and composition. Following this will be short descriptions of the Pasteur Medal, the Coolidge Debating Prize, the Surbridge Cups and the gold medals given to University debaters. Three illustrations will appear in the programme: A group of the Yale and Princeton debating teams last year, a picture...