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...year. But the last winter meetings were so successful and so little open to criticism that it is not easy to see what changes for the better could have been made. The introduction of the running broad jump will add an interesting event to the list, though a good record in this event is not likely to be made in the gymnasium. We have lost some of the best men for many events, and to keep up the high standard of the gymnasium exhibitions of the last two years not only should the former contestants practice faithfully, but large numbers...
...Chess Club of Columbia College it is said has thus far defeated the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Harvard College, and now adds a game with Yale to an unbroken record. Challenges to engage in similar games have been sent to Princeton and Williams Colleges, but have as yet been unanswered...
...correspondent of the Yale Record argues forcibly in favor of inter-collegiate athletic games between Yale and Harvard, "at which the winners in Yale's games will meet Harvard's champions. This meeting would at once raise track athletics to the prominence which they deserve, and the Harvard-Yale athletic games would rank with the Harvard ball game and the Princeton foot-ball match. The expenses of the meeting would be more than covered by the gate-money, and the experiment would involve no financial danger. The question at least deserves a thorough discussion in both the papers...
...delay in answering the challenge for a race is not the result of any doubt as to accepting the challenge, but simply results from a desire - which to us seems perfectly just - to settle all details of the race before any definitive agreement is entered into, the Yale Record is still very much concerned about the matter, and seems to view "Harvard's motive in this matter as utterly incomprehensible." For the benefit, therefore, of the Record and the Yale crew, which deem it "extremely discouraging to begin active training while in a state of uncertainty as to whether...
...Record we hope will accept this statement as authoritative, and convey to their crew the assurance which cannot fail to encourage them, that our crew is now in active training for the race and do not seem discouraged about the uncertainty of the event...