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Russell Thurston Fry '17, of Claremont, N. H., manager of the University Musical Clubs, was selected to manage the annual intercollegiate glee club contest which is to take place in Carnegie Hall, New York, on February 24, 1917. Besides the University, Columbia, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Penn. State, and Princeton have definitely decided to compete in this meet, while there is a possibility that Yale and Cornell will also decide to enter...
...University won this game and the coming contest with Yale the championship of the northern division of the intercollegiate lacrosse league would have been clinched. There is still hope, however, that the University lacrosse team may hold one corner of a triple tie, if Cornell loses to Yale and that the latter is defeated by the University...
...Graduates' Cup, contended for in a kicking contest at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, was awarded for the year to Ralph Horween '18, of Chicago, Ill. Donald Merriam McElwain '18, of Boston, was given second place. The judges were C. E. Brickley '15, S. M. Felton '13, and L. H. Leary '05. Judgment was based on form, accuracy and distance, with particular emphasis on form...
Alan Grant Paine '17, of Spokane, Wash., was awarded the first prize of $30, and Julian Henry Spitz '17, of Brookline, received the second award of $20, in the prize speaking contest held by the Massachusetts Peace Society, under the auspices of the Speakers' Club in Emerson D. Each candidate made one long speech and then made a five-minute extemporaneous speech on a subject selected by one of the judges, who were Professor Bliss Perry, Reverend Edward Cummings '83, and Mr. L. L. Cleveland, principal of the Cambridge High and Latin School...
...University tennis team defeated Pennsylvania 6 to 0 on Divinity Field yesterday afternoon. The Pennsylvanians were greatly handicapped by the loss of W. Davis, whose appearance had been expected to make the match a close one. The best contest of the day was that in which Captain R. N. Williams, 2d, 16 defeated Roland...