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Saturday the new base-ball association which has been in progress of formation for so long a time sprang into life. The following delegates from the four colleges represented met at the Parker House at 10 o'clock and adopted a constitution for the new association and decided upon a schedule of championship games...
...stimulus of a vigorous rival. With the purpose of organizing such a rival, a petition was circulated in 1867, which, with the names of half the class thereon, was presented to and approved by the faculty. As it was too late in the year to make any more progress in the matter, the business was put off until the following autumn, at which time the petitioners assembled in Massachusetts Hall and proceeded to the election of officers and the drafting of a constitution. The success of the new society was now assured. It was carried on in a vigorous...
...physical instruction in a large number of schools in New York and vicinity. Owing to his other engagements he will be able to be in New Haven only three times a week, but he is such a thorough and skilful instructor that the men are making rapid progress under his directions. An unusually large number of men are in training for the games, and owing to the competent instruction they will receive, the prospects for a good winter meeting are better than those of any previous year...
...publish in to-day's issue an account of the progress of the freshman nine. Surely with such an array of talent, Captain Vila ought not to be at a loss to choose, when spring comes, nine men to represent '90 at New Haven. But, '90, only a small portion of the year's work has been done as yet. Strict training and much practice must be done before you will be able to cope successfully with Yale. You have beaten her once; it should be an extra incentive to be victorious over her in the base-ball field...
...shows the same improvement and growth. Although still known as a "college," the excellent schools of law, engineering, and medicine which Columbia possesses will soon compel her title to be changed to "university," a name to which it certainly has an undoubted right. Therefore in view of the gratifying progress which this rival 'university' of the future has made in the past few years, no pains ought to be spared by the able committee into whose hands the management of the celebration has been entrusted to make the coming birthday memorable in the history of the college...