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Yesterday the number of candidates for the university nine was reduced to twenty-four, who will probably remain with the squad until those to go on the Easter trip are selected. This includes those trying for battery positions. As a whole the men are altogether too slow and do not seem to be able to judge the ball accurately, fumbling being a common fault. This weakness is especially characteristic of the candidates for infield positions, particularly catcher and shortstop, which will be hard to fill acceptably. As yet no one has been found who could be depended upon at either...
...members of last year's university boat and the remaining on different class crews. It is generally thought that the men sent over to England will be fully up to the standard of Yale crews of previous years. The training table will not be started until just before the Easter vacation, when a reduction of the candidates will take place...
...final competitive debate to choose the Yale speakers for the coming Yale-Harvard debate will be held about Easter and will be open to all members of the university. The announcement that the Harvard Freshman Debating Club is prohibited in the future from holding joint debates with like organizations in other colleges is generally regretted here as terminating one of the existing opportunities for friendly intellectual rivalry between the two universities...
Will some person who can speak with authority kindly explain under what system the date of the beginning of the Easter recess is fixed and why this year it should be as late as April...
...about 15 weeks and the spring term less than 8, including the examination period. Such a division of the year's work seems extraordinarily unequal; and, if nothing else, manifestly unfair to those students who, having friends or relatives in other colleges or schools which as usual have the Easter recess at the beginning of April, naturally expected to be able to see them during the vacation...