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...Yale University Dramatic Association will produce, on April 23 and 24, Thomas Heywood's comedy, "The Fair Maid of the West." An effort will be made to picture the audience of Shakespeare's day by means of a representative audience of about one hundred students, who will occupy a pit built in the space usually devoted to the musicians and the first few rows of orchestra seats...
...Lehmann will give a talk in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8 o'clock on "The University as a Training Ground for the Public Speaker." Seats in the pit have been reserved for members of the 'Varsity crew, the winning class crew, the 'Varsity and College nines, the athletic team, and last fall's 'Varsity eleven, as well as for members of the musical organization and of the Harvard Union. Neither reserved seat tickets nor admission tickets have been issued. Members and graduates of the University as well as instructors are invited...
...over, it is hoped that more men will join the club. The links are naturally good, the turf being rather better than that at the Cambridge club, while the course as a whole is decidedly interesting. There is one very sporty hole of 90 yards, just beyond a gravel pit, half full of water, and another on the side of a steep hill. Captain Gannett has arranged two team matches, one with the Agawam Hunt Club for May 1, and another with the Country Club for May 8. Men who play golf are urged to come...
...indoor track of the University of Pennsylvania beneath the grand stand on Franklin Field has been completed. The track is made entirely of cinders so that it will not harden in cold weather. There are two 100 yard straightaways and a take-off and pit for broad jumpers...
...hockey is played in a circular pit about forty-five feet across, the sides of which are three feet high. The visiting teams brought their own pit with them, in sixteen pieces which were bolted together and set up in the gymnasium. The pins are set up in a circle, the four white ones alternating with the four black, and each man has a pin to guard. The ball used is a polo ball. It is batted with a hockey stick. The object of the game is for each side to knock over with the ball the opponents' pins without...