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...Saturday, June 2d. The programme, of the meeting has recently been published, of which the following is a synopsis. Entries are invited from college athletes. The following definition of an amateur is given: "An amateur is any person who has never competed in an open competition, or for a stake, or for public money, or for gate money, or under a false name; or with a professional for a prize, or where gate money is charged; nor has ever, at any period of his life, taught or pursued athletic exercises as a means of livelihood...
Although Dartmouth is not worthy a place in the base ball league in the opinion of Harvard, we should not be afraid to stake our spare shekels on the following nine against any which our gentlemanly, silk-hosed cousins could muster: Cram, '81 (Capt.) c.; Rundlett, '81. p.: Partridge, '82, 1b.; Parker, '82, 2b.; Nettleton, '84, 3b.; Cushman '83, s. s.; Webster, '82, l.f.; Coombs, '83, c.f.; Hale, '84, r. f. Substitute battery, Gay and Gulick, '83. [Dartmouth...
...race shall be rowed, and thereupon each college confides the ensuing diplomatic correspondence to a committee. The Yale committee writes a formal letter offering to row under certain conditions, which will give the Yale crew every advantage. Thus, Yale will demand that if her crew arrives at the winning stake on the same day with the Harvards, the victory shall be adjudged to Yale; that the Harvard crew shall consist exclusively of cripples, and shall row in a mud-scow, and that the course to be rowed over, the time of starting, and the choice of position shall...
...sterns. So far the correspondent's information is correct; but they were judged by the bows at the finish, and it is in this fact that the kernel of the whole matter lies. It was generally understood by the Harvard crew as they drew up to the stake boat that the boats were to start by sterns and finish by sterns, but a remark from Captain Hull before starting undeceived them, and the time was actually taken as the bows crossed the finish. Now, considering the closeness of the race, it is not at all an impossible supposition that...
...work during the main part of the year, and by a little hard study, just before the examinations, to obtain as high a mark as the man who worked faithfully and regularly on the course. As no one examination can completely cover any course, there is too much at stake in one of the half-yearly examinations. There is too large a margin for chance to enter into the result...