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...authorities that the meeting of college crews from both sides of the water will lead the way in a subsequent year to a race with one of the two great English university crews. There is no question that if this could ever be brought about it would be an event of the greatest interest. Whether on the whole such an international race would be a desirable addition to the present list of intercollegiate athletic contests is a matter for consideration. Certainly the expense, no matter how quickly and eagerly loyal graduates and enthusiastic students would raise the money to defray...
...Yale Athletic Association will hold its annual winter meeting in conjunction with the Connecticut National Guard at the Second Regiment Armory in New Haven on Saturday evening, March 7. The following events will be open only to the Connecticut National Guard: 50 yards dash, handicap; one mile relay race, boxing, tug-of-war. The following events, all handicap, will be open to all amateurs: 50 yards dash, 50 yards hurdle, 600 yards run, one mile run, putting 16 pound shot, pole vault, running high jump. Other events may be arranged later. The first two men in each event will receive...
...Baker is musical director. The first performance will be by a full orchestra of forty musicians selected from the Philharmonic Society of New York. Arrangements have been made for special train service from Trenton, Philadelphia, and New York, and every effort is being put forth to make the event one of the social functions of the season. These concerts to be known as Princeton-Symphonies will doubtless aid much in bringing about a more general appreciation of classical music here, and in establishing the long-wished for school of music...
Captain Treadway of the Yale crew said yesterday that Yale would have no representative at the final meeting of Harvard, Cornell, Columbia and University of Pennsylvania navies next week in New York and that Yale would make no application for entry into the event on the Hudson. He stated that Yale had received no invitation from the other colleges to enter the race or to send a representative to the meeting. He would not state whether Yale would send a crew to England to enter the Henley...
...Lightipe '98, F. Fuller '97, R. L. Eaton '98, J. L. Armstrong '98, and A. B. Tappin '99, the latter last year's interscholastic champion, are each capable of covering the distance under 4.40. At the half, Kingsley, has a record of 2.03.25. The quarter mile is another event in which Columbia should show well with such men available as G. T. Kirby '98, A. E. Schaff '99, N. G. Bijur '96, and Chatain '96, each good for at least 54s. At the 220 and 100 yard dashes are Clark '97, Caswell '98, Moffit '99, the Lawrenceville sprinter, Underhill...