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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...radical measures must be adopted. If the men refuse to look at the matter in the right light and persist in this deplorable custom of hissing and stamping, there is but one course of action - that is to close the gallery to visitors. It does not reflect much credit on the better side of a man's nature, if, after making a reasonable appeal to him not to abuse a privilege, one has to resort to the only alternative, that of taking it from him. In this case, however, he is depriving not himself alone, but many others a great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/24/1893 | See Source »

...performance on the double trapeze by F. W. Moore '93 and R. Macallister '93 was by all odds the best event of the meeting. Their feats were difficult and carried out with a show of great strength and skill. The whole would have done credit to professional performers, to say nothing of amateurs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second Winter Meeting. | 3/20/1893 | See Source »

...were we do not pretend to say, but it is certain that Princeton was placed in an embarrassing position when she found herself called upon to make a final decision. The best course was clearly the hardest and most humiliating to pursue. And yet it is much to the credit of Princeton men that they were manly enough to admit the hastiness of their action and remedy it when an opportunity was given them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/14/1893 | See Source »

...great interest taken in them was seen by the large audience and enthusiasm with which they greeted the winners in each event. The number of competitors was larger than last year and the records of Saturday can be very favorably compared with those of a year ago. Great credit is to be given the management for the promptness in starting each event; there was no delay or unnecessary hitch to mar the pleasure of the evening. Among all the events, none, perhaps, attracted so much attention as the team race with Yale, which proved fully as interesting and exciting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1893 | See Source »

...Boston Athletic Association held its fourth annual indoor handicap meeting last Saturday evening in Mechanics Hall. The meeting was probably the largest and most interesting ever held by the association and much credit is due the management for the way in which the events took place, there being scarcely any delay, each event following in quick succession. The record for the running high jump which was held by G. R. Fearing '93, was broken by F. Sweeney of the Xavier A. C. who cleared 6 feet 2 1-2 inches, thus raising the record by one-fourth inch. Sweeney jumped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The B. A. A. Games. | 2/13/1893 | See Source »

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