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DELEGATES from Amherst, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Trinity, Union, Wesleyan, Williams, and Yale met at Springfield, on Wednesday, April 7, Mr. Roberts of Trinity being in the chair. Hamilton did not send representatives, but delegates from Bowdoin were admitted, so that thirteen colleges were represented. The meeting was very harmonious, and a great deal of work was done. The racing rules were revised, and some changes made in the order and language, together with the following more important alterations...
With the view of promoting such an association as rapidly as possible, I freely offer the result of some years' experience passed, not altogether without honor, during the war for the maintenance of the Union, until the election of the proper company or battalion officers, and, with the consent of the authorities, the use of the Gymnasium for meeting and drill...
...first Beacon Cup was rowed for in 1857, when the Harvard eight oars came in first, with the Union six oars one second behind. Few who were present will forget the desperate struggle at the finish to get the nose of the Harvard past the line in advance of the Union. There was no hope of winning the cup, which the allowance of time gave beyond a doubt to the Union. One or more of the men in the Harvard had gone into the race without proper preparation, and were incapable of doing much more than paddle long before...
...Union nails her color to the mast, we tremble before the awful probability that things will be mixed. There is little danger of a Harvard student's being taken for a Union man, except by those who were "raised" in the immediate vicinity of - we believe it is Schenectady? - but the Union students may expect to be often taken for Cantabs, next summer, and must cultivate their modesty for the occasion...
FROM a description of Syracuse University in the Union College Spectator we clip the following...