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...pleasure in playing a championship game of foot-ball with Yale College. And, perhaps, there is still less in rowing a race on the Thames. It is a real and earnest business, whether too much so for college sports is not the question here, and the long and tedious work is what will count for the most when the most is needed...
...gymnasium was comfortably crowded Saturday when the first Winter Meeting took place. For several years past this meeting has been long drawn out and tedious; this year by exception it was interesting and as short as could be expected. There was not a large number of entries, most of the contests being decided in one bout, but the men who had entered had trained well and made creditable exhibitions. For the past two years, since Mr. Lathrop has had classes, the wrestling has been good. This year it was no exception. The sparring, too, was scientific and satisfactory. The management...
...first Winter Meeting occurs today, and bids fair to be more interesting than in former years, on account of the transfer of part of the sparring to this day. This meeting is sometimes tedious, on account of the great number of events on the programme. The only way to make these events interesting is to make them as short and exciting as possible...
...motion by Mr. Armes, that Yale be not admitted was lost. Mr. Duncan moved that Yale be admitted; Mr. Sheffield amended: "That Harvard accept Yale's challenge to a race. The race, however, to take place over the Charles River course." After a tedious debate, the amendment was carried with but small opposition, to the considerable surprise of many present, and the amended motion was carried unanimously. The meeting broke up at nine o'clock with cheers for Captain Keyes...
...large and valuable library was found after a long and tedious research in the ruins of Nineveh. From this library we get our information about the knowledge of the Assyrians. The only other country whose history and civilization dates back to 4000 years before Christ besides Assyria, is Egypt. Most Assyrian monuments were built of brick, and therefore have almost entirely disappeared...