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...this gentleman expresses the opinions of his college in the matter we do not believe, and yet it is singular that he should have been allowed to go on writing to the "Spirit" for the last month uncontradicted, if his sentiments were opposed to those of the college. The New York Herald says that the article in our sporting column was instrumental in causing Cornell to withdraw her challenge. The withdrawal of that challenge is a subject of regret; but we must confess that Cornell has availed herself of a poor pretext, if, as is currently reported, she has made...
ATHLETICS.Amateur Ten-Miles. - An amateur championship belt for this distance has been offered by the Boston Y. M. C. A. Athletic Club, and is open to New England amateurs only. If there were only some man in this University who would make the attempt to win this belt for Harvard, we are sure he would be encouraged by all in college who are interested in athletics. The feeling that it is not "quite the thing" to enter amateur races never influences men who are anxious to compare their strength with that of men other than those they have beaten...
...This Athletic Club holds a winter meeting at Gilmore's Garden, New York, on January 3 and 4, and offers a capital programme, open to amateurs only, which includes walking, sprint and distance running and hurdle-racing, bicycle riding...
ROWING.M. A. A. O. - The Metropolitan Association of Amateur Oarsmen of New York have issued a programme for their next regatta on July 4, 1879. The races are for eight-oared shells with coxswains, and four-oared shells without coxswains, open only to college clubs; four-oared and six-oared shells with coxswains for juniors; four-oared, pair-oared, and double and single sculls for seniors and juniors, open to any amateur club. Apparently the first part of the programme is intended as an opposition to the National Association, who have just offered such handsome cups for college crews only...
...each entertainment the Glee Club sang, in its usual style, some new and some old songs, and thus contributed in no small degree to the general enjoyment...