Word: springing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia, has called a meeting for Thursday evening next in New York. Among the changes to be discussed are the abolishing of the present system of scoring, and the transfer of the time of the championship tournament from the fall of the year to the spring. The application of the University of Pennsylvania for admission will also be acted upon. Harvard will be represented by G. C. Clark...
Twenty universities and colleges will be represented in the intercollegiate strength test championships which will be held during next spring. Last year, Harvard made the highest average of fifty tests and also won the individual test, C. G. Herbert '00 making 1594.5, which stands at present as the intercollegiate record. Of the twenty-one Harvard men who were among the first fifty of the seven colleges represented, seventeen have returned to College and will be eligible to compete next spring. Among the other colleges, Columbia was second last year, and Amherst third. The second best individual score was 1352.5, made...
...debate. For four years he has represented his hall in the interhall debates, held preliminary to the intercollegiate debates. In his junior year he was a member of the team which represented Princeton in the debate with Yale at New Haven and a substitute for the Harvard debate last spring. In the preliminary trials for the debate tonight, he was awarded the Spencer Trask prize of $50. He was recently elected to deliver the ivy oration on the occasion of the commencement exercises of his class. For two years he has been a member of the intercollegiate debating committee...
...preparation for the Harvard and Princeton debates next spring, the Yale Debating Association will give interclub debating a much more prominent place than heretofore. As far as possible dates have been made for numerous interclub debates in order that the work may be systematized. The debates will also be made as public as possible, not only to make it more worth while to be a representative of a team, but also to give the men more assurance when they speak before large audience. Formality in choosing the men will widen the interest in the clubs. These changes from the policy...
...Yale track team next spring will be especially strong in the middle distances high hurdles and pole vault. The vacancies caused by the graduation of T. R. Fisher '99 S., R. M. Graff '99 S., F. H. Warren '99 and C. B. Spitzer '99 will be hard to fill. Among the most promising men of last year's team still in college are: The 100 yards dash--F. A. Blount '00, I. Richards, Jr., '01, J. J. Peters '00 S., C. E. Ordway '00; 220 yards dash--D. Boardman '02, C. T. Gleason '00; 440 yards run--C. L. Luce...