Word: various
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There are 1,046 entries, made by twenty different colleges. This is far larger than the entry list in any previous meet. The entries from the various colleges are as follows: Harvard, 129; Cornell, 114; Yale, 96; Michigan, 91; Bowdoin, 80; Pennsylvania, 79; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 73; Columbia, 68; Amherst, 06; Dartmouth, 59; Princeton, 52; Syracuse, 31; Brown, 27; Stevens Institute, 26; New York, 19; Williams, 16; Fordham, 13; Swarthmore, 9; Haverford, 4; Johns Hopkins...
...they are to be congratulated for an excellent showing on the track last Saturday. The resemblance between the University and Freshman teams is quite remarkable. They are both strong on the track and weak in the field events, and in a great number of cases the points in the various events were decided the same way in the two recent contests with Yale...
Alexander Campbell Tener, of Sedgeley, Pa., who will speak first for Yale, prepared for college at the Hill School, where he took part in various debating activities...
...Illustrated's postal cards to the Senior class calling for opinions on the various courses taken in College furnish one of the rare opportunities given to the undergraduates to criticise their professors. Last year's canvass proved to be extremely interesting and the results obtained were acted on profitably in a few instances. It was shown that many courses which should have been favorites were disliked because of unpopular lecturers. Other more interesting lecturers hand their courses made unpopular by unsuitable assistants for the second meetings. The elementary language courses came in for much criticism, probably because they were compulsory...
...designate the members of the squad by an amusing but not particularly delicate title. It is hard to understand why this feeling exists at Cambridge, but it undoubtedly does exist, and it can only be done away with by the good record and the personnel of the various University teams. The game itself is very interesting to watch and requires great skill and staying powers from those who take part in it. That it is as successful here as at present is rather remarkable, considering the support it receives. Yet last year the University team won the championship...