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...valiantly matched their skill at the national game. The scene was one of delicate picturesqueness,--the contestants decked out in gala attire, and the vast concourse of onlookers displaying ostentatiously their brilliant outing costumes. The umpire was at times whimsical and at the third inning called the game on account of dampness. But nothing daunted the two teams and they played on amid cataract and slough. At the end of the game the special delegates from the mathematical department declared the score to be 8 to 7 in favor of the Lampoons. The regular game will be played next week...
...games in the Leiter Cup baseball series scheduled yesterday between the Prickly Heats and the Butterfingers, and the Bush Leaguers and Holyoke House, were postponed on account of the rain until Monday. The semi-finals and finals of the series will be played as early next week as possible...
...Coach Courtney to drop from the squad L. W. Gavett '08 and R. W. Weed, Jr., '09, who have been rowing steadily on the Cornell eight all the spring. The resignation of these men, together with that of bow and stroke of the four-oar, was requested on account of the ill-feeling and dissension which has been current among the men all the season. Lately, especially since Koorner was compelled to leave, the first boat has been unaccountably slow; and since such a strong combination as he had was being beaten continually by the junior university and freshman crews...
...account of the absence of C. Morgan '08, who has been rowing at stroke the University second crew went out as a four-oar yesterday afternoon. It is now probable that a coxless four-oar will be developed for the American Henley Regatta at Philadelphia on May 23, instead of an eight. Last year the second crew was not broken up into four oars until May 27, and this plan will therefore give the four-oar two more weeks than usual in which to prepare for the Yale race on June 25. E. Cutler was able to row yesterday after...
Monsieur Andre Tardieu, late Hyde Lecturer at the University and honorary member of the Cercle Francais, has published in the Paris "Temps" an article on his impressions of Harvard, which gives an interesting account of the University as seen by a foreigner...