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Princeton is making great preparations for the coming athletic season, and hopes to make a good showing in all branches. Heretofore the only championship which has been held by Princeton has been that in lacrosse, but this year, owing to the addition of several men valuable in track athletics, the college will be represented by a strong team at the Mott Haven games...
Base-ball is also being watched, and at present there are fourteen candidates for positions on the team. King, '89, will captain the nine and pitch, but the make-up of rest of the team is very uncertain. Ames, '90, however, is almost sure to play second base and change pitcher. The following is the list of other candidates: Brownlee, '89, Brokaw, '92, Brown, '92, Dana, '91, Lilly, '92, Mowry, '91, Watts, '91, Hanson, '92, Durell, '89, Payne, '91, Knickerbocker, '91, McMillan...
...annual convention of the delegates from the New England preparatory schools belonging to the Interscholastic Athletic Association will be held at Boston on the first Saturday in March. One of the principal objects of the meeting is to make arrangements for an athletic meeting to be held late in the spring. The association is governed by a board of directors consisting of three delegates from each school, together with a Harvard undergraduate. A cup to be contested for has been offered by Harvard men whose purpose is to heighten the standard of athletics at the preparatory schools by means...
...himself. In early times men were disgraced as atheists who attempted investigations into the mysteries of their origin, and it was not until the middle of the eighteenth century that enough facts had been obtained on this subject to found a system of knowledge. But then men began to make researches and new facts were discovered every year. In 1859 Darwin wrote his "Origin of Species," a work which was formed of the new science. For ten years after this, anthropological societies sprang up with great rapidity in many parts of Europe and they are now flourishing in full force...
Notwithstanding the number of candidates, the outlook for the nine this year is very gloomy. The quality is by no means equal to the quantity, and only by the most strenuous exertions can the nine hope to make a worthy showing on the field this spring...