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...championship series, each college having won six races. Yale rowed Columbia in '86, '90 and '91, winning the race in '90. Thus by the unwritten laws of boating, it is Yale's turn to challenge. There is a general sentiment against rowing Cornell, not arising from the success of the latter's crews, but rather from the fact that they draw their material from the first-year men of all departments, while Columbia takes men from the undergraduate courses of the Arts and Mines. These are much younger and lighter than the Ithaca crew...
Speaking of English entrance examinations for colleges Prof. Beers of Yale says: "The entrance requirements in English, recommended by the commission of New England colleges, and adopted with more or less success everywhere in New England except at Yale, have been severely criticised, and to Yale it seems prudent to await the result of these experiments, and to postpone any definition of her own policy in the matter until the question confronts her as a practical one, calling for immediate action...
...This success is due largely to the improved quality of the songs themselves. During the last few years there has been a very healthy reform in the style of college song; the "nonsense verse" form of music which prevailed not long ago, and which, while being rather amusing for a time, hardly satisfied the desires of those who wished to hear the glee clubs sing music worth singing, - this nonsense music has been given up for a style which, while still keeping an amusing element, contains much more musical worth. The kind of music which the college man writes today...
Harvard failed to do anything in putting the 16 lb. shot but had better success in the novice high jump, Richardson Dn. taking second place with a jump of 5 ft. 4 1-2 in, with Wheelwright '94, third at 5 3 1-2 in. The event was won by a Cambridge man who cleared...
...this connection we desire to commend the action of the H. A. A. in deciding to hold a meeting open to all amateur in the spring. Harvard has exception facilities for holding such a meeting, and there is every reason to expect that it will prove a great success. It should be under taken in a generous spirit. Our indebtedness to the amateur athletic clubs of New York and Boston is large in one sense, and we should endeavor to show them in this meeting our appreciation of the many courtesies extended to Harvard athletes...