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...Resolved, That the Yale Alumni Association of New York regards with deep gratification the interest at Yale during the past year in extemporaneous debate resulting in two victories in intercollegiate debate-one, last December, over Princeton; the other, on May first, over Harvard; and congratulates Yale University upon this splendid record of achievement in a field of intellectual contest and discipline...
...Beggar Student" is meeting with splendid reception this week. Next week, patrons will have the pleasure of hearing "Aida" for the first time. The cast will be a strong one, and scenery and costumes...
Fitz pitched a splendid game for Ninety-nine. He struck out twelve men, and held the Sophomores down to six hits, two of which would have been easy outs but for the darkness. He also had perfect control of the ball and was very cool at critical times...
...score of seventeen to two. The Freshmen outplayed their rivals at all points of the game, and the result was not in doubt for a moment after the second inning. The greater part of the work for Ninety-nine was done by the battery, as Mains pitched in splendid form, striking out fifteen men and holding the Sophomores down to six hits, two of which were scratches. Davis caught a good game, with the exception of one missed third strike in the first inning, which was responsible for the two runs made by Ninety-eight. The Freshmen played an errorless...
...endeavored to force it. There was wanting in the Harvard argument definiteness, a fault which afforded an easy point of attack for the Yale men. Still the Harvard argument taken by itself was strong, but was not presented so forcibly as the Yale argument. All the Yale speakers had splendid form. Clark's skill in analysis was perhaps their strongest weapon. For Harvard, Stewar dspoke best, making the most effective of the rebuttal speeches...