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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other who is ranked above him. If the challenger wins, the two change places, and a natural readjustment thus takes place which results in bringing the best men to the top of the list. The Harvard representatives in all matches and tournaments, including those with Yale and the English universities, will be taken from the men highest on this list. It is thought that this system will be more convenient in many respects than the old system of tournaments...
Princeton has chosen the negative of the question for the annual Harvard-Princeton debate on December 16. The question is: "Resolved, "That the English claims in the present controversy with the South African Republic are justifiable...
...While no definite steps have yet been taken toward the arrangement of a return dual track meet between Yale and Harvard and the English universities, Oxford and Cambridge, it seems almost certain that the American universities will have an opportunity to retrieve next spring the defeat which they suffered in England last year. The Yale and Harvard undergraduate managements are now in communication on the subject, and it is probable that a challenge will soon be sent, as the initiative must be taken by Harvard and Yale, the defeated contestants. The meet would of course be held on this side...
...semi-annual room drawings in February. The erection of Dodge Memorial Hall, which, with Murry Hall, will be the home of the Philadelphia Society, the religious organization of the university, has been begun and considerable progress has been made. The building is of Brown stone, designed in the English collegiate Gothic style of the fifteenth century and will cost $50,000. It will be ready...
...trials will be held on Tuesday and Friday evenings of next week, details of which will be given later. The question submitted by the Wranglers is "Resolved, That the English claims in the present controversy with the Transvaal are justifiable...