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...prevailed here for the past week. The candidates for the University crew number eighteen at present, and it is expected that this number will be considerably augmented when the semi-annual examinations are over. Captain Stevenson has had a crew upon he water almost every day since the Thanksgiving recess, and will continue to do so until obliged by inclement weather to put his men in the barge which has been placed in the gymnasium, which has been thoroughly repaired...
...have decided to hold special contests in the gymnasium during the winter, in three events, putting the shot, running high jump and pole vault. These contests will be held Saturday afternoons after the Christmas recess, and prizes will be given for the best average in each event. In the pole vault, Mr. R. G. Leavitt will be handicapped one foot, the shot and high jump will be scratch events. Since the object of these contests is to raise the standard of our work in the events, high enough to win in the Mott Haven games, all men who have even...
...candidates for the Amherst base-ball team have begun training under the direction of Mr. Storrs, the captain. Only practice in batting and battery work will be attempted until after the Christmas recess...
...many encores. John then told some of his college experiences, among which was the great and only theatre-party tale, in which John once figured with a crowd of "shtudents." To crown the glory which his little variety then procured for him, he pulled out of a hidden recess, a carefully tied up parcel, which he unrolled very gingerly, and at length displayed to the admiring audience a large crimson rosette with which he was going to decorate himself the following day. This brought down the house, (or rather the boat) and completed John's bliss. After a comfortable smoke...
...thanksgiving recess at Yale lasts from 1 p. m. on Wednesday, Nov. 23, to 12 on Monday...