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The Intercollegiate Games.

The intercollegiate games will be held this year May 25 on the Berkeley oval track at Morris Dock, seventeen minutes ride from the 42d street station. The Berkeley track is one of the best in the country, being especially fast for bicycles, with its long dished up ellipse curves. It is situated on a high hill very near the Hudson. The grounds themselves are very attractive; as you enter, on the right is a high bank on the side of which the grand stand is situated. Gradually sloping upward from the grand stand is a large grove of forest trees, on the edge of which the very pretty stone club house stands. On the top of the bank there is a private road running along under the shade of the trees, which affords a chance for spectators in carriages and coaches to look directly down on the contestants. Every seat in the grand stand is a good one, which can not be said of the seats on the Manhattan track. The view from the grand stand is beautiful. The ground gradually recedes till it reaches the Hudson running at some distance in the valley below. On the other side of the river the Palisades begin here to rise to a considerable height and stretch off dimly to the northward.

On a good day there is no reason why the best of records should not be made on this track, and it is extremely unfortunate for Harvard that some of her best material cannot be induced to enter again this year in the events in which they succeeded in coming in first in previous years.

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