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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There were thirty-nine candidates this year for the Halcyon crew and thirty-eight for the Shattuck, at St. Paul...
There will be no thesis in History X during the second half-year...
...tendency towards greater freedom in athletics, now so strong at Harvard is shown strikingly in the changes in the character of the winter meetings to take place this year. The third meeting will be open to all students of colleges belonging to the Intercollegiate Athletic Association and the Institute of Technology. For several years some of the events at the Yale and Tech. sports have been open to Harvard men an opportunity which has not been neglected by them. The practice and extra exertion have always had a good effect upon the men preparing for the sports here. The throwing...
Another important change is the holding of a preliminary meeting for wrestling. In former years the long trial bouts have been exceedingly tedious, and have often exhausted the contestants before the final bouts. This year only the final bouts will be wrestled at the regular meeting, and the result will be a more interesting meeting and better wrestling...
...indoor winter meetings this year promise to be much more interesting than those of previous years, owing to the late action of the Athletic Committee by which the first meeting is to be relieved of the preliminary bouts in wrestling, and only the final bouts are to be contested. At a meeting to be held on March 11 the preliminary bouts will be held. Another important innovation made by the committee is the one which opens the third meeting to members of all the colleges of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association and the M. I. of Technology. By these changes much...