Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of entries for the chess tournament is at present very small, only five men having signed the book. Last year and the year before very successful tournaments were held and a precedent was set for an annual tournament. As one of the objects of the tournament is to develop latent talent, all who play the game are invited to enter without fear of being beaten. The tournament is open to all members of the university. The book will be left at Bartlett's until Friday night. Rules for play will be announced later...
...Ball, a first year law student last year, is studying law at the University of Michigan...
...subject of intercollegiate athletics. It is an article that every man interested in the present athletic situation would do well to read for it goes right to the heart of the matter and contains a condemnation of the professionalism which is now so prevalent. The game with Princeton last Saturday and the meeting held in New York last week are made the basis of the article. The writer says that a state of athletics when protests and affidavits are even necessary is not the state which should be sought after by college men in their contests with each other...
Another point highly censured and rightly so, is that men on Jarvis last Saturday paraded up and down in front of the benches, their hands full of money and invited or rather taunted men to bet. Betting is an evil inseparable from college as much as professional athletics, but that it should be carried on in so open and disgraceful a manner, shows clearly that professionalism is fast tainting the whole structure of intercollegiate contests...
...second lap Williams passed Sheffield. Bailey and Holmes came in sight. Williams succeeded in keeping the lead until the third lap when Bailey made a good spurt and took the lead which he held to the finish, making the distance in 34 minutes, 46 seconds. On the last lap Barron and Davis passed Williams and kept this position until the home stretch when Williams by a good spurt passed Davis, and finished less than a foot behind Barron. The first three men will receive cups. Bailey will also have a cup for the fastest time. Mr. R. H. Davis...