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Arrangements for the Harvard-Princeton joint debate are progressing satisfactorily, and the debating societies at Princeton are very enthusiastic. Princeton will propose the question, and Harvard will have the choice of sides. The competitive debate to choose Harvard's representatives will be held shortly after the Christmas recess and will be conducted on the same plan as the debate to choose speakers for the Yale debate. The joint debate itself will be held during the first part of March...
Owing to the abolishment 01 Fast Day, it was necessary to alter the time of the spring recess. The vote of the Overseers on the subject reads: "Spring recess begins on the Sunday next preceding April 19, or on Sunday, April 19, when that day falls on Sunday, and ends the following Saturday, both days inclusive...
...upon until late, but the case with Soldiers Field will probably be different. We have the word of a member of the athletic committee, the chairman of the sub-committee on grounds and buildings, that he personally visited Soldiers and Jarvis Fields this year three weeks before the April recess, examined both, and was of opinion that Soldiers was the drier. Such being the fact, the strongest objection which baseball men can urge against devoting Jarvis to tennis, fails...
...class crews have had about five weeks of steady work on the river with the exception of a few days, when the water was too rough, and also two or three days which were taken off during the spring recess. The change form the barge to the shell has put the crews back considerably as regards time and form; '94 and '97 especially showing the change. The general averages of the crews show '94 to be the heaviest, '95 the lightest, while '96 and '97 are about equal in weight...
With the change of holidays which the State has made, a corresponding change in the spring recess here is worth considering. The recess has always been so dated as to include Fast Day; if it should be changed so as to include Patriots' Day, it would fall about two weeks later, and this would give some likelihood of a coincidence with pleasant weather. There is hardly a week in the year which is more likely to be stormy than the first in April, and gentlemen long connected with the University say that the plans of vacation after vacation have been...