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Yale and Princeton went home from the intercollegiate golf matches at Siwanoy wearing half a laurel wreath apiece. Princeton retained the team championship, won last year at Garden City, by 12 strokes with an aggregate of 1,286-four men, 72 holes. Yale won the individual championship when Dexter Cummings of the Class of 1925, defeated R. Knepper of Princeton, 2 and 1, in the match play final...
...been invented for literature or the drama, these qualifications ? except where they concern matters of ascertainable fact, such as the citizenship of the author, or the year of a play's nativity ? must, in general, be dodged when the time comes for the award of the laurel wreath. Very sensibly, too?but, why have the qualifications in the first place? Could there not be one prize, awarded with out qualification, to what, in the opinion of its judges, was a good piece of work...
Thousands streamed by his bier covered with flowers; a distinguished minister conducted the funeral services, and a notable cortege followed his casket to the cemetery. One wreath, proclaimed as costing $250, bore a written tribute to the desperado's alleged bravery displayed while engaged in banditry, and railed at the betrayal of his friendship by his executioner...
Yesterday morning took place the funeral of Augustine MacDonnell, a faithful servitor of the College who had been janitor of the buildings in the Yard for over thirty years. By common subscription among the occupants of Hollis, Holworthy, and Stoughton Hollis a fund was raised for a wreath which was laid upon the bier by a representative from each of the three buildings...
...morning at 8.45 o'clock, which will be open to the public. The Reverend Augustus Mendon Lord '83, D.D., of Providence, Rhode Island, the regular preacher for the week, will conduct the service. Before chapel, Dean C. N. Greenough '98, President of the Harvard Memorial Society, will place a wreath on the statue of John Harvard in the Delta. Contrary to former custom in commemorating the birth of the founder of the University there will be no exercises this year in front of the statue...