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...Stone, '85; Richards, '85; Griggs, '83. Waldon, '81, has come back and will occupy his old position as second base. Wilcox, the luckiest man in the college base-ball arena last year, has left college. The nine also loses the services of Smith, Badger, Hopkins and Platt. Hopkins' place will be hard to fill, but the vacancy at second base will be more than filled by the return of Waldon. The base-ball quarters at the gymnasium have been greatly enlarged and improved. The candidates began training January...
...Orleans paper modestly states that among those suggested for the presidency of the newly founded college at that place are President Eliot of Harvard, President Porter of Yale, President White of Cornell, the president of the Johns Hopkins University, and William P. Johnston of the Louisiana State University. It is to be hoped that no unseemly jealousy among the gentlemen named will prevent the college from getting the best. Perhaps it would be well to begin with the last...
...college, and with energy and steady practice there is no reason why they should not bring out a team able to make a good stand against the elevens from other universities. But in awakening a general interest in this sport the difficulties will be greater. In the first place, we have already three great branches of athletics that absorb most of the enthusiasm of the university. In these the interest is intense, owing to the exciting character of the contests. But experience has shown that to keep up this interest the contests must be exciting. The enthusiasm over rowing...
...large numbers. For several years past it has been possible to predict for months in advance that Columbia would not secure the intercollegiate cup. This year the chances are, that unless a new support arises, the college will drop to a still lower place...
...leave a legible trace; others seem inspired by their surroundings and turn out specimens that would be creditable to a writing academy. Young ladies seem to be the majority of those who put down their names. Very often there appears a long list of ladies' names, from some distant place, grouped in a pleasant chorus...