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...took the intercollegiate hockey championship with ease. Skating has always been one of the chief pastimes at Cornell, and inasmuch as they have a great many Canadian students there with whom hockey is the favorite sport, it looks as though the Ithacans would carry off the honors in this particular field for a good many years to come. Indeed, it would not be surprising if Cornell proved as hard to dislodge from the hockey championship as from the rowing and cross-country titles...
This year in particular the Harvard Yale athletic authorities have encountered many obstacles in settling the dates of the baseball games and the New London regatta, the chief trouble being that the Yale commencement has fallen more than a week before the conclusion of the Harvard academic year. Under the new scheme the necessity of holding the races on the Thames ten days after most of the Yale undergraduates leave New Haven would be eliminated...
...competitors in most of the events this year are unusually matched and some extremely close finishes are expected. It is hard to pick any particular events as features, inasmuch as all will undoubtedly be of the highest class, but the quarter and the mile perhaps will hold the closest attention of the spectators. While few records are likely to go, many will be closely approached. A number of last year's point winners will compete, but their chances of scoring again can hardly be based on their performances a year ago, because many new stars have been developed...
Baron d'Estournelles referred to some of the wars that have taken place in Europe in times past and showed that as a result of these wars no particular advantage was gained either to the contending parties or to other nations. In spite of the fact that Russia and France have been at war twice during the last century, they are at present the best of friends. Both of these wars were the fault of the governments and not of the people themselves...
...meet the need of persons interested in plants who wish to know when particular trees and shrubs in the Arnold Arboretum are in bloom, it is proposed to issue from time to time bulletins of popular information, in which attention will be called to the flowering of important plants and other matters connected with them. During the spring and autumn these bulletins will probably be issued every Saturday, and from time to time during the remainder of the year when the necessity for them exists; and in them notice will seeing during the following week...