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...small wheel and now another genius comes forward with a mainsail attached. When we finally get a full-rigged bicycle, with its steam engine, spinnaker and all the other appliances suggested or invented we shall have a new means of suicide which cannot fail to become popular. - N. Y. Telegram...
...York College Association held its annual meeting Jan. 29 in Syracuse, N. Y., delegates being present from Cornell, Hamilton, Hobart, Rochester, Syracuse and Union Colleges. The championship pennant was awarded to Cornell, the nine from that college not having lost a game. Rochester was expelled from the association on the ground that its team disbanded to escape paying guarantees to visiting teams. The executive committee was given power to admit the Troy Polytechnic team to the association and fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of Rocherter...
...SHIPPEN, Sec'y...
There is something of a sensation in Yale college circles over an incident which happened a day or two ago. In one of Prof. Sumner's regular lectures two or three seniors became boisterously playful, and were ordered to leave the room. - N. Y. Times...
...Frank Dempster Sherman, whose graceful poems in the Century and the Atlantic have gained him so wide a popularity as a writer of vers de societe, is at present living in Peekskill, N. Y. Boston Herald. The gentleman mentioned above was a member of '87 last year...