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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Juniors are eligible to the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Society if they attain a standing of 3.15 on a scale of four in scholarship for the first two and a half-year's of their course...
...this is the time of year when the winter games of the different colleges take place, it may be interesting to review briefly their history at Yale. The first winter meeting of which there is any notice, was held in '73, when Dr. Sargent went to Yale as instructor in gymnastics. At that meeting there were twenty men entered in twelve events, consisting chiefly of tumbling, trapeze work and bar exercise. Although the first meeting was very successful, for various reasons no games were-held in '74 and '75, and we find frequent allusions in the college papers of that...
...prospects for a strong nine at Dartmouth are excellent. The candidates practice daily in the new cage and a good deal of excellent material has been developed. Of last year's nine only four men are left, Williams, '90, shortstop; Baehr, '90, pitcher; Ranney, M. S., and Jones, '90, catchers. For the other positions there is no lack of candidates, and besides Baehr, Viau and Woodcock, '91, and Kendall, '89, are trying for pitcher's position. The men are being coached by Leon, and owing to competition they are all training very carefully. The athletic team for the Worcester tournament...
...which the standard of athletics may be raised. A few weeks ago it was announced that a cup had been offered by Harvard men to be competed for by the different schools belonging to a proposed interscholastic athletic association. One athletic meeting is to be held a year, and the games are to be of the usual nature of the annual intercollegiate contest...
...SARGENT PRIZE.The Sargent Prize of $100 is offered this year for the best metrical version (of sufficient merit) of the Fourth Ode of the Third Book of Horace...