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FROM what we can learn of the class of '85 at Yale, men may be there obtained for her crew who will be almost as valuable as those who have left. Yale, though she has suffered a heavy loss, will, no doubt, prove a worthy antagonist, and can only be beaten, if she be beaten at all, by earnest work on our part. For this reason it seems to us that our tone should be one of mingled hope and determination, with no feeling of confidence that the result next year must be favorable...
...trophies of his prowess, sat the bold Sir Elly Mentari de Fisicks. His stern and forbidding mien was an index, dreadful to his foes, of the spirit within. Famous for his strange and dreadful weapons which effected their purpose with unerring precision and unvarying success, he was an antagonist whom the bravest heart might fear to meet in mortal combat. Armed with a "Mariotte's bottle," and carrying a flask of spirits with which to replenish his levels, he quailed not even before an enemy that he saw double. Such was the band of warriors selected by Prince Presistrardin...
...Robert S. Rodman, a Senior, of Rock Island, Ill. Rodman felt aggrieved at an article published in the News which seemed to him to reflect upon himself. A rough-and-tumble fight followed Rodman's blow at Keller, and the latter got so much the better of his antagonist that he is about the street, while Rodman is confined to his room...
...excitement and applause it produced, was the bout between Messrs. Burr and Guiteras. The first round of this event proved to be by far the best display of skill given during the afternoon, and at almost every blow Mr. Burr succeeded in getting the better of his antagonist. But during the second round both men grew rather excited, and then science gave way to frequent locks and heavy battering, in which Mr. Guiteras, apparently the cooler of the two, got in a succession of powerful upper-cuts. The third round was a repetition of the preceding, though more even...
...unfinished bout of the light-weight wrestling of the first day's sport followed. Messrs. Rogers, '78, and Gaston, '80, appeared, and after a few moments' struggle Mr. Gaston succeeded in throwing his antagonist, and thus won the bout...