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...names of the college and the individual winners to be inscribed on the cup. $25 additional was subscribed by the College Athletic Association to be added to this fund. The chair appointed Messrs. W. B. Parsons, '79, Columbia; and W. G. Twombley, '79, Harvard. It was then moved to omit the standing high and standing broad jumps from the programme, but after a heated discussion, the former motion was lost, the latter, however, eventually being passed. The aggregate weight of the tug-of-war teams was limited to 600 pounds. Lafayette College, of Easton, Pennsylvania, was admitted; and the Executive...
...have been obliged this week (as once before this year) to omit our Sporting Column, owing to the great press upon our columns...
...themselves important, are absolutely valueless compared with the advantages of a thorough knowledge of English. The evil is the greater in that the preparatory schools - as far as the classical courses are concerned - are obliged, by the strain and worry of preparing boys for their severe entrance-examinations, to omit or neglect, in great degree, the study of English composition and grammar; while the lack of time for gaining even an elementary knowledge of our own literature brings about a most deplorable result, - young men enter college skilled in mathematics and classics, but positively ignorant of their mother tongue...
...competitor may omit his trials at any height, but if he fail at the next height he shall not be allowed to go back and try the height which he omitted...
...course you did not omit...