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...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...
There will be two skating rinks laid out on Soldiers Field this year. Each rink will be 180 feet long and 80 feet wide. The entire length of the two rinks, as they are laid out together, will be 360 feet. One of them will be used for hockey practice and the other will be open to members of the University. The fee for the use of the rink during the season will be $1.00. Work on the rinks has just been started...
...race between the third and fourth Weld and third Newell graded crews was won by the third Weld. The third Newell was half a length behind the third Weld and about two lengths ahead of the fourth Weld...
...race of the Freshman crews the Weld won again. The first Weld secured a lead at the start and held it to the finish. The second Weld and first Newell had a close race for the first mile but then the Weld drew ahead and finished a length in the lead. The second Newell come in about six lengths behind...
...crews settled down to about thirty two strokes a minute but the Newell seemed to have more life and sent their boat well ahead. At the half-mile the first Newell was half a length ahead with the first Weld and second Newell about even. The second Weld was about one-third of a length behind. From this point the Weld crews began to gain and just before the bridge the two first crews were about even, with the second crews a length behind. As they passed under the bridge both Newell crews spurted and gained half a length...