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Contrary to an earlier announcement, all events but the standing 38-pound weight-throw for height will be handicapped. The meet will begin tomorrow at 2.30 o'clock promptly. Prizes will be given for first and second places in each of the following eight events: standing 38-pound weight-throw for distance, 16-pound shot-put, running high jump, running broad jump, pole-vault, 30-yard high hurdles, and 30-yard low hurdles...
...almost be called a fixture, to Boston, and arranging it for the day preceding Commencement, would add interest to that empty interval between Class Day and Commencement. The best feature of the changed dates is that the men on the baseball teams can now be dismissed nearly a week earlier than hitherto...
Baseball practice for the University squad will commence about the last week in February and for the Freshman squad a little earlier. But all men who intend to try for the University team, who were not on the University squad or the Freshman team last year, will be called out two weeks earlier. It is probable also that the pitchers will begin their work during the mid-year period. Outdoor practice will begin as soon as the weather will permit and an early start will be made in the Leiter Cup series
...eleventh annual intercollegiate cross-country run will be held over the new Technology course tomorrow morning at 10.30 o'clock. Entries of teams of twenty were received earlier in the season from Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton, Syracuse, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale. Tomorrow ten men from each college will be admitted to Technology Field, where the final selection of the seven to run on each team must be made...
...spite of some evident weaknesses in the University team, the game on Saturday was distinctly encouraging. The victory did not come by the use of any unusual football strategy, but by the better execution of plays which have been used repeatedly in earlier games. This improvement was most noticeable in the strong defence offered to the attacks of the Dartmouth backs, and in the increased effectiveness of the offensive play when a score was in sight. The Dartmouth team was by far the strongest opponent met this season, and to have scored two touchdowns against it is no small achievement...