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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Smith, '86. Mr. Lee had the "bye" and the first bout was accordingly between Page and Smith. Page had the benefit of two years' experience, having sparred in the light-weight in his sophomore year and in the middle-weight last year, when he was defeated, after a very close contest, by Lee. He has been in active training all winter and the effects of this were visible in his style and effectiveness, which were a great improvement over last year. Smith was much taller and heavier than his opponent, and, as he stepped into the ring, it looked...
First round. - Page forced the fighting from the first, and following Smith up left and right, punished him quite badly. Smith soon recovered, and won deserved applause by several leads straight from the shoulder. Page excelled in round arm blows, while Smith's leading was very effective. At the close it was hard to say who had the best...
...second of Yale's winter meetings was held Saturday. '83 won the tug-of-war from '84 by three inches after a close struggle. The other events were: vaulting, in which the record made was 6 ft. 7 in.; horizontal bar; standing high jump, won by Brooks, '85, 4 ft. 7 1/4 in.; rope climbing; high kick, 8 ft. 5 in.; running high jump, also won by Brooks, 5 ft. 1/2 in.; fencing; light-weight sparring; closing with an exhibition of sparring between W. C. Camp and H. Knapp...
...seems in the highest degree inadvisable, if not absolutely unfair to the freshmen that they are required to commence Analytical Geometry this term before taking their examination in Trigonometry. It is well understood that the former is the hardest subject of the freshman year and requires very close application to pass in the June examination; and, when it is first begun, it is not the time to neglect it. At this time the freshmen are especially busy in preparing for the approaching examinations, one of which is Trigonometry. Either because the present freshman class is particularly brilliant or from some...
...second of Mr. Royce's lectures proved no less interesting than the first. The attendance was larger than we have seen in Sever 11 for some time. The lecturer held the close attention of his audience throughout, and the applause at the end showed how fully his lecture was appreciated...