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...score in their favor in the football game and a clean-cut victory in the relay race the first year men won for their class its numerals on the cup in the Technology Union as well as the privilege of smoking class pipes. Only in the tug-of-war did the sophomores show strength enough to overcome the enthusiasm of the freshmen. In that event the second year men succeeded in pulling their opponents over the mark two consecutive times...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology will hold their annual field day today. In former years the two classes used to hold a cane rush but this has since been modified into a competition in sports. The three events will be a foot-ball game, a relay race and a tug-of-war. The final standing of the classes is based on a point system, the events counting four, three and two points respectively in the order named...
...foot white vessel with her highly ornamented bow and sides, presented a most unusual spectacle, attracting the attention of everyone along the water front, as she moved up the harbor in tow of the Gloucester tug Eveleth. Off East Boston flats the tug Edwin L. Pillbury relieved the Eveleth and towed the galley up the Charles River, through the drawbridges to the basin where it was moored off the Technology buildings. The bridges on the Charles were crowded with people and another throng watched the odd-looking craft from the North End Park...
...Conn., June 11.-The feature of the rowing practice today was a time trial which was suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a tug boat. The first and second University boats started to race, and the latter was to stop at the two-mile where the Freshmen were to take up the race. At the mile and a quarter mark, when the two crews were making a fairly even race of it, an ocean tug "James MacWilliams" suddenly appeared in the course and refused to stop in spite of all signals and gesticulations from the four launches which were following...
Technology's new athletic field will be dedicated this afternoon with the annual field contests between the two lower classes at the Institute, the program consisting of a football game, relay race and tug-of-war. The undergraduates will attend in a body, marching to the field from Copley square by classes. The field will be formally dedicated and the sports will follow...