Two suggestions may be made for the management of future meetings. The first is for the better arranging of the club-swinging. Every one saw what difficulty there was in deciding the winner of this contest, and how very hard it was to draw the line between the "legitimate" and the "juggling." Then, too, the length of the performance grew a little tiresome after twenty minutes or so, and while one man used clubs weighing nearly sixteen pounds, another's were only about five pounds. Some rules to regulate these things seem to be needed. Let there be two classes according to the weight of the men, say, over and under a hundred and fifty pounds. Then prescribe a minimum weight of clubs for each class and a fixed time for each man to swing. This would make this event decidedly more interesting and less tedious. The other criticism is on the announcing of the heights as the bar is moved, as was done in the running jump. It is not fair to the jumpers, and it is not needed by the spectators. If a man is accustomed in practice to reach only a certain height, and he is told when jumping in public that he has reached that height, he is certain to be unnerved by it rather than aided. At the Union's recent meeting they refused to tell contestants what the height was, even when they wished to know, and we are sure that inquiry among the men who jump would show that they all were against having the height announced.
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The Serenade to the Princeton Nine.