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...Clipper thinks that the recent fall athletic meeting was not enough of a success to warrant any ease on Harvard's part in preparing for the intercollegiate contests of next spring. "In certain sports," it says, "there was a limit put, but why it does not appear, for it surely did not induce men to enter, and detracted from the enjoyment of the occasion. The standing high jump was omitted, as was the bicycle race. If Harvard has any idea of winning the cur next year there must be a vast improvement shown at the spring meeting...
...York the latter part of this month is being actively discussed, and will probably be favored. A large number of freshmen candidates for the team are practising, and it is expected that a team will be found to play the preparatory school teams and other freshmen teams. - [Clipper...
...lawn tennis, and many other fine players. That the interest in athletics will not only be maintained, but will be greater than ever, is evinced by the fact that all lockers are taken, and the 125 new ones in course of construction will no doubt be spoken for. - [Clipper...
...Clipper pronounces the Yale-Princeton game of Tuesday amateurish in all save the pitching. It now calls Yale's fielding far inferior to that of Princeton. This, indeed, seems to be the general opinion of outside papers. - [New Haven Union...
...expenses to New York, whether he succeeded in the attempt or not; and stipulated that he need not present them with the $25 00 offered in case of failure. This letter met with no response, and the post-master at Sweet's Corners, Massachusetts, writes to the Clipper of November 19, that no such a person as Scoville lives, or ever has lived, at that place. The Spirit of November 26 gives Scoville the choice of the following three names as applied to himself, - a myth, a fool, or a swindler...