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...Harvard advisory committee. There has been and is now no intention whatever to decline the challenge, and a formal answer will be sent as soon as several preliminary questions are settled between the committees of the two colleges, the most notable of which is that about the start and finish of the race. Last June it had been understood till the boats came to the line that both start and finish should be by the sterns; then Yale claimed that the start should be by sterns and end by bows. As Yale had the longer boat this claim was evidently...
...efforts to start a reading-room have thus far met with gratifying success. All has been done that could possibly have been done to give the room a promising send-off. Its success now depends largely on those who have already taken enough interest in the enterprise to subscribe to it. We hope that these will not think that, for the present, they have done enough by simply signing their names. The directors of the association intend to have the room in running order when the students come back from the Christmas recess. In order to do this they will...
...Lincoln College sports, Oxford University, Nov. 23, the Strangers' handicap, 120 yards, was won by H. H. Minton, 4 1/2 yards start, in 11 4-5s. R. Marriott, 4 yards, was second by a yard. At the Trinity College sports, Cambridge, held the same day. F. G. L. Lucas, penalised 4 1/2 yards, finished second by half a yard in the one hundred-yards race, the time of the winner, E. P. Powell, being 10 1-5s. Lucas won the 120 yards handicap, from scratch, in 12 1-5s., finishing three yards in front of Powell...
...Atkinson, '85, will be master of hounds in the hare and hounds run today. The hunt will be a "slow hunt," and the course will be between six and seven miles. Start at 3.15 in front of Matthews...
...mile bicycle race between Prince and Frye, at the Institute fair building last evening, the latter won in 33 min. 40 1/2 sec., having a start of 20 seconds over Prince...