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First round - Both men opened well and for a time leads, counters and body blows followed each other in rapid succession, much to the delight of the audience. Ayars, who was quicker and more scientific than his adversary, had the best of this round...
Third round. - Page got in his body blows with good effect, and led hard with his left, almost invariably following it up with his right. Lee rallied, and landed a lead square on Page's face. Once more the men went at it, and another rapid exchange followed, in which Page seemed to have the best of it. The bout and the cup were awarded to Page...
...Inter-Collegiate Lacrosse Association marks an important step in the history of lacrosse in the United States, and indicates that lacrosse has at last secured a firm foothold among other legitimate collegiate sports. With flourishing teams at Princeton, Yale and Harvard, the association may reasonably hope to see a rapid spread of the game to other colleges. The adoption of a modified list of playing rules by the convention was a move of great importance for the future of the game. These, if published, will afford all an opportunity to acquire acquaintance with the theory of the game, and this...
...secondly to the slight demand at that time of the year for the goods in which the society professes to deal. In the latter part of May and in June the opening of the tennis season, and the low rates offered by the society in tennis goods, caused a rapid increase in the membership, which was well sustained till the end of the year by the facilities offered for the sale of second hand goods. No names were added during the summer, but at the beginning of the academic year a second large accession to the number took place, owing...
...found in the recent growth and wide-spread popularity of comic opera and similar music of the day. It is suggested that these light and popular melodies are coming to take the place in college life of the older class of distinctively college songs. And so, with the rapid abandonment of all the more prominent characteristics of student life that is taking place, we are now to see the decay of the art of writing and singing college songs. However satisfactory or however insufficient this explanation may be, it seems to be an undoubted fact that this art is fast...