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...base-ball the record is far different. Out of the twenty-four games played in the last seven years, Harvard has won thirteen, while Yale has been victorious in eleven. Harvard has won four series, Yale one, with two ties. In 1881 the tie could not be played off, owing to some disagreement with regard to the date. In 1882 a date was arranged for a deciding game, but Yale, knowing they had won the championship without showing a superiority over at least two teams, backed squarely out of the game. They claimed that they could not hold their nine...
...Lick Observatory, in California, is well under way. It is on Mount Hamilton, thirteen miles from San Jose, and nearly 4,500 feet above sea level, with an unobstructed view of the heavens, except a small part of the northeastern horizon, shut out from view by a neighboring mountain peak. There are to be two domes, in one of which a twelve-inch equatorial telescope is now erected. The other is to contain the great thirty-six-inch telescope, the glasses for which are now being ground at Cambridgeport, Mass. The observatory is of the most substantial character, and will...
...defeated Columbia Saturday by a score of eleven goals and five touchdowns to three safeties for Columbia. Columbia played almost entirely a defensive game. The score is, with one exception, the largest that Yale has made, that exception being the Yale-Columbia game of 1881, when the score was thirteen goals and several touchdowns for Yale to nothing for Columbia. Columbia's two best players, Morgan and Henry, were absent. The Yale team was minus Camp, and it is thought that his loss will be a permanent...
Williams College is taking steps towards a reformation. Thirteen freshmen were recently expelled for too free driving of the horse...
McGill, and in fact all the Canada teams, are accustomed to play with fifteen men, and Monday they played thirteen as a compromise with Harvard's eleven...