New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-17
COLUMBIA.

About fifty cand dates for tn Columbia Colleze ina.
team appeared In the college gymnasium last Mona,
afternoon to begin their preparations for the cor,
ing season. The new Manhattan Athletic CluN.
gymnasium has been secured for the candidates .,s
this will enhance their chances Of success this wa.
w. H. Fearing is tho captain of the team a..
+. w. Stone will take charge OF the training
system entirely at Columbia will. be adon,.s
this year in the training. The candidates will ~
divided In respect to the contests for which thu,
training, into squads, over each of which ths,.
will be sub-capta.n, whose duty will be 10 loot
after those training in 1t and also to bring out ana
develop A weekly meeting will be .hsu
10 discuss the doings of the candidates As soon a.
the men get the track weekly trials will be hsM
in which the candidates must show a regular in
provement in order to get the team.
The varsity and freshman crews now in harA
training. The are learning the stroke very fa.,
in fact, Captain Prentice has the varsity e,gh.
rowing the whole stroke with the exception OF thu
slide. The weights Of most Of the men on bon
crews have increased considerably since the train
Ing began. The men will probably not begin to train
on the Hudson. but will pass about two weeks on
the Harlem River. In order to get used to a shel
before they strike the rougher of the former
river. 1t is probable that the crew while on the Har
lem may use the boathouse of the Friendship Pos,
Club.
message has recently been received from thu
Chess Club Of the College OF the City Of New.
York challenging the Labourdonnaise Chess Club
to a tournament. The proposition was that there
should be two men SIDE and that they should
play any number of games stipulated by Columbia
The management of the whole affair left TO
the Labourdonnaise Chess Club. The challenge
will probably not be accepted. most OF the mem.
bers are very hard at work
The Columbia College Bowling Club held its sec.
ond meeting last Tuesday night. There were sew.
eral changes in the ranking Of the players. The
averages of the men they now stand are: Farley
l47 l-6 Egner, li3 2-3 Brandt 40; Ridgway 1870 20;
@. b Underhll, l20 l-3; Hulick, 1852; HILL ll2ls
Rosenberg and Elliot unavoidaby absent and
VIII be allowed to bowl this week.
Tomorrow night Professor Franklin Fl. Giddngs
In tie Columbia College lectures given In co-opera.
ton with Cooper Union will have his subject
voluntary ORGANIZATIONS as a Means OF Achiev.
ing Social Ends"
In the Columbia College lectures in cooperation
with the American Museum of Natural History
next Saturday DR.. Franz BOas will give the fourth
OF his lectures on anthropology His subject will
be primitive Mythology"
The second Of the musical lectures by Georgs
William Warren VIII be delivered this afternoon st
4:30 In Hamilton Hail.
The senior class of Columbia College held meet.
Ing last Saturday and elected the following offcers
for the classday exercises: Historian, John Rich.
ard Atwi: poet. Joseph VI. Proskauer: prophet,
Samuel Swayze Seward jr: presentation officer.
Edward Hamilton Daily. and vaied torian, Robert
Glen McCrea. The Class Day Committee consists
Franklin Reese. Robert A. McCuoch Edwin Beer
and Carl Alsberg. The Commencement Committee
consists of William Cherry. Frederick Peters and
William Hayes. II was voted at the meeting tina,
cation exercises on May 2. on classday and a, com.
mencement.