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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting last night of men interested in handball, rules for the proposed tournament were adopted which will be posted at once in the Gymnasium. Next Wednesday afternoon a preliminary tournament is to begin, which will be open to all who sign the blue-book at the Gymnasium before Monday evening. The winners in this tournament will contest, and a final tournament will then be held, the winners of which will receive engraved silver cups as prizes. Thirty-two men have signed thus far and others have signified their intention of entering...
Your correspondent of Tuesday recommends to those interested in the Boer war a book upon that subject by a popular writer of sensational fiction. Will you kindly allow me the opportunity of calling attention to a less advertised work upon the same subject by a distinguished Englishman, who is not only a literary man, but also a scholar. I refer to Mr. John A. Hobson, lecturer in the London School of Economics, and author of several well-known books upon economic theory and history, which are regularly used in our economic courses. Mr. Hobson's "The War in South Africa...
...cent book is wanted, I would advise, at least as a healthful antidote for the pamphlet suggested by your correspondent, the American edition of "Peace or War in South Africa," by A. M. S. Methuen, the senior member of the London publishing house of that name. Even Mr. Doyle himself pronounces this book "able and moderate." VERITAS...
...meeting of those interested in handball was held in the Trophy Room last night. It was decided to hold a tournament, and, if possible, to arrange intercollegiate matches as Yale and Columbia have done. Men who wish to enter the tournament may do so by signing the blue book which is now at the office of the Gymnasium. The entrance fee is 25 cents...
Entries for the Leiter Cup series of baseball games are now open and may be handed in to A. H. Weed, Apthorp 11, or placed in the blue book at Leavitt's. Entries of teams must give the name of the team, name of the captain and names of at least nine players. Entries of old teams must specify which men played on last year's team. Individuals not belonging to any team, but wishing to play, may enter their names together with the positions they wish to play. From these names the committee will make up one or more...