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NEWS FROM OTHER COLLEGES,
HARVARD.
Harvard’s athletic team this year will
be unusually strong, and few of last
year’s team, who left college, will be
missed. In the sprints, Bigelow, ’98;
Redpath, 98; Denholim, ’97; and Roche,
*99. are the promising candidates, with
Gould, and Dunstan, two Freshmen,
close behind. All of last year’s quarter-
milers together with a few new men
are now working regularly with very
satisfactory results.
Candidates for themilerunarescarce
and the only man of any prominence
in this event is Grant, who broke the
Harvard record last spring and took
third in the Mott Haven games. In the
hurdles Harvard is very weak as her
three best men have left college. The
prominent candidates are: Williams,
"97; Clarke; L.S.,Morse, ’99; Rice, ’98,
and Hubbard, 1900.
On the field events, however, the team
will show up well. Putnam is the only
one of the high jump men who has left
college and this year great reliance is
placed in Morse, ’99. Mason, ’96, has
been the only serious loss in the broad
jump, as E. H. Clark, J. G. Clark and
A. Stickney have cleared over twenty-
two feet. Hoyt, who won at Athens
last year, is forcing his competitors to
hard work in the pole vault. F. Shaw
and Patterson are the only two men
who can throw the hammer with any
proficiency, and of these Shaw alone
is eligible, since Patterson, is a gradu-
ate of Cornell, in 1895.
Captain Dean has taken to the base
ball training table the following men:
Scannell, A. P. Davis, Paine, Haugh-
ton, Stevenson, Chandler, Hayes, Rand
and Burgess. These men have received
orders to be measured for uniforms.
Mr. R. C. Lehmann, a former editor
of the London “Punch,” has received
an honorary election to the Lampoon
Board.
CORNELL.
The Cornell crew is rowing as fol-
lows: Stroke, Bentley; 7, Tatum; 6,
Spilman; 5, Johnston; 4, Crawford; 3,
Moore; 2, Chriswell; bow, Ludlam. The
alternates are: Stroke, Jeffers; 5,
Sweetland; 4, Fuller; 3, Newell; bow,
Crum.
Dr. Alexander McKenzie of Cam-
bridge is to deliver the Baccalaureate
sermon at Cornell this year.
PENNSYLVANIA.
At the recent meeting of the Trustees
of the University of Pennsylvania, a
most significant action was taken,
which will enable the Law Department
of that Institution, to make the Biddle
Memorial Library one of the most com-
plete libraries of legal works and re-
ports of Common Law in the country.
The original gift made in 1887, included
nearly all American and English re-
ports. Since then quite a sum has been
spent on texts and various reports. The
late appropriation provides for the ex-
penditure of $20,000 in the next two
years, in making still further additions.
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Fence Orator and Fence Rush.
At a meeting of the Sophomore Class,
held last Monday evening, Edward
Thecdore Noble, of Wichita, Kan., was
elected fence orator for that class at
the presentation of the Fence to the
Freshmen in June.
When the Sophomores came out of
their meeting they found the Fence in
possession of the Freshmen. An attack
was at once made. A very lively class
fight took place, in which nearly every
one involved received damages of some
kind or other. Some escaped with only
loss to clothes, while others may bear
marks of the fight on their faces and
limbs for several days to come.
The tussle lasted about half an. hour,
the Sophomores coming no nearer the
Fence than when they began, and was
finally brought to a close by the inter-
cession of members of the Senior class.
The Freshmen were persuaded to with-
draw under the threat that their ath-
jletic privileges might be still further
restricted if the fight resulted at all
seriously, and with the consolation that
they had at least for a time held pos-
session of the much-coveted Fence.
The Tax Question Pushed.
The action of the New Haven As-
sessors in listing certain pieces of col-
lege property, not previously taxed, has
been appealed to the Superior Court
by the University’s attorneys, Bristol,
Stoddard & Bristol. There is little
doubt that the case will be carried to
the highest court by the losing party,
no matter which way the Superior
Court renders its decision, Both sides
are determined to contest their point
to the very last. .
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PRINCETON DEBATERS,
Three Men Chosen to Speak for the
University.
The final trials of the Yale-Princeton
debate were held in Osborn Hall last
Tuesday evening. The judges were Prof.
A. T. Hadley, Prof. L. O. Brastow, and
Dr. E. V. Raynolds. -Sixteen men spoke
in the following order: F. R. Lehlbach
97; N. A. Smyth, ’97; N. Candee, °97 L,
S.; J. M. Sattertield, 98 S.; H. W.
Fisher, 98 ; O. H. Dowell, 98 S.; A. M.
Hail or 1. 8.;° H. Bingham; ’98-::.C, 1,
Avery, 97 L. S., E. L. Smith, 97: A. E.
Fraser, 98 T. S.; L. M. Bass, ’97; E. H.
Hume, 97; E. E. Garrison, 97; T. H.
Cobbs, ’97 L. 5,, and Dean Sage, ’97.
The following men were chosen to
represent Yale in the debate: Herbert
Wescott Fisher, °98, of New Haven,
Conn.; Edward Hicks Hume, ’97, of
Bombay, India; and Arthur Elieda
Fraser, 98 T.S., of Sioux City, Iowa.
C. L, Avery, 97 L.8., and E. L. Smith,
97, was selected as alternates.
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THE THACHER PRIZE.
The Thacher prize of $75.00 was
awarded to H. W. Fisher, ’98, as the
best speaker from the Academic De-
partment.
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Eighty-Seven Decennial,
The class of ’87 will hold its decennial
reunion in New Haven on Tuesday,
June 29th, 1897. Arrangements have
already been made for the use of Lenox
Hall and the Wheeler & Wilson band of
Bridgeport has been engaged for the
day. ‘The class will attend the base ball
game between Yale and Harvard ina
body, accompanied by the band. Din-
ner will be served immediately after
the game with Stewart as caterer. The
ceremonies will close with fireworks
and speeches. Although the speakers
have not been announced, some great
speeches are expected. Judging from
the members who have already re-
sponded, a large attendance is assured.
The committee having the reunion in
charge are, George E. Hill, secretary of
the class, Sanford E. Cobb, Oliver G.
Jennings, James R. Sheffield and Pro-
fessor William Lyon Phelps.
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Prof. Palmer to go Abroad.
Arthur H. Palmer, prosessor of Ger-
man language and literature, expects to
be granted a leave of absence by the
corporation for the term of one year.
He will leave for Europe at the close of ©
the college year and will spend the win-
ter of 1897-98 in Germany. No one
will take the place of Prof. Palmer dur-
ing his absence. The work will be so
condensed as to be under the charge of.
the remaining. German professors and
instructors.
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Princeton has chosen the following
judges for the Yale-Princeton debate
from the last submitted to them by the
Yale Joint Debate Committee: Mayor
Quincy, of Boston; Colonel G. A. War-
ing, of the New York Street Cleaning
department, and Mr. Carroll D. Wright,
the United States Commissioner of La-
bor.
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