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...have organized for the coming season, and will play their usual game with Harvard, probably on Fast Day. This club stands at the head of all the amateur nines in the country, and is in fact purely amateur, as no pay whatever has ever been given to a player, even for a single game. Many of the members are college-graduates and interest is kept up during the winter by monthly dinners. It used to be said that the club never played two games in a season with exactly the same nine, but this year the men will play more...
...programme. The only entries were J. W. Lawrence, '91, and H. S. Phillips, Gr. Phillips opened the first round on the offensive, going at his man with the evident intention of annihilating him. Lawrence stood the punishment well and returned enough blows to make the honors about even at the end of the first round. Both men fought carefully during the second round. Phillips got in some hard blows, and Lawrence seemed pretty well used up when time was called. The third round opened much the same as the second, Phillips getting in some hard hits on his opponent...
...repetition to-day of the hissing which disgraced the first winter meeting last Saturday, would be most ungentlemanly. The fact that ladies are to be present should do more towards emphasizing this than anything we can say; but at the same time, under a high pressure of excitement, even gentleman are apt to forget themselves sometimes. The spectators should remember also to abstain from undue applause and encouragement for the contestants until the close of the events. If these little things are remembered, we prophesy an interesting and successful meeting...
...second suggestion is that more room be given to the boxers. Judging from a good deal of Saturday's sparring, the ring was too small and the crowded benches surrounding it were a source of annoyance and even great trouble to the boxers, who were continually tripping and falling over the feet of the spectators. It would be a good plan to encircle the ring with a rope, or perhaps a fence of empty benches placed with backs inward...
...Yale as well as at Harvard. These charges are especially noticeable in the class-day exercises of the two colleges. In former days, the graduating class took breakfast with the President, and in the afternoon came the memorable dance upon the green. At Yale usages have been abandoned even more than at Cambridge. One of the best known ceremonies that no longer occupies a part of the presentation week is the Wooden Spoon Ceremony. This custom had its origin at one of the colleges at Cambridge University, England. Before 1865, it was usual to give a jackknife to the homeliest...