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...join them, has begun to work consequences of no little moment. It is reported that some members of the nine are about to give up practice if they are to be compelled to play with inferior nines. Although the college has voted once for all not to join the triangular league, still another meeting will probably be called in a day or two and perhaps the former vote will be reconsidered. There seems to be no doubt that if Columbia is admitted, Yale will only be too happy, by entering the new league, to get out of the isolated position...
...that the proposed changes in the make-up of the base-ball association, extremely radical as they are, should have stirred the college community to its depths. When the proposition was first made it was generally looked upon with favor. The idea of boiling the association down to a triangular one, composed of the three leading base-ball colleges, was attractive. It gave promise of more interesting games, larger gate receipts, and a raising of the standard of the game generally. This feeling did not last until the mass meeting, however. The more men thought over the matter, the greater...
...Wednesday afternoon a large mass meeting was held at New Haven to take action upon the question of joining a new base-ball league in preference to the old. An almost unanimous sentiment was expressed against forming a triangular league with Princeton and Harvard; but a new league, leaving out Dartmouth, Brown and Amherst, seemed to find many adherents. After an animated discussion, it was voted to allow the base-ball management to join any league it thought best, except the one with Princeton and Harvard. It seems most likely that the managers will favor Williams against Columbia...
...inches in height are formed, which travel in a circular direction and form whirlpools about seven feet in diameter. When the men first began to row ordinary oars were used, but it was found too hard work to use them in such a small space of still water. Then triangular shaped pieces, comprising two-thirds of the blades, were cut out, thus allowing part of the water to rush through the oars. This experiment is working well, and the men row easily and in good shape. - N. Y. Star...
...triangular plot of lawn about John Harvard's statue is alive with throwers of the ball every evening after supper...