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...Sixteen men have survived the qualifying rounds of the College championship golf tournament and will play the first round of match play at the Oakley Country Club this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The second round will be played tomorrow, the semi-finals on Monday and Tuesday, and the finals next Wednesday...
...annual Leiter Cup baseball series will begin on Soldiers Field this afternoon. Sixteen teams have been entered, and in running off the series, a system similar to that used in an elimination tennis tournament will be employed. Altogether there will be four rounds, including the final round. Postponed games will be played after the completion of the round in which they are scheduled. Defaulting teams will be eliminated. Managers will have to keep the score of the games, and place the written results in the box marked "Leiter Cup," just inside and to the right of the front entrance...
...first examinations under the new tutorial system in the Department of History, Government and Economics come soon after the recess. There is still too prevalent among undergraduates the false notion that if they pass their sixteen courses with the correct proportion of C's and D's, their degreees will not be denied them. Yet the failure to pass the special examination is as serious as failure to pass the required number of courses...
Training table for the first two University crews will commence Monday morning with breakfast, and sixteen oarsmen, two coxswains and the managers will make up the table...
Timothy Cole was the master of the art. He was born in London in 1852, but emigrated to the United States when five years old with his father. Burned out in the Chicago fire, he returned to New York penniless. He had been apprenticed to his trade at sixteen and in New York he had little difficulty in finding work with different periodicals. Mr. Cole's connection with the Century Magazine which he has never completely severed, began in 1875 when the late Alexander W. Drake called him into the service of the magazine, then called Scribner's Monthly...