Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spec tators. An east wind somewhat inter fered with the runners as it blew directly in their feces as they came down the home stitch, and it is surprising that such good time was made in the running events. Indeed, the contestants succeeded in breaking three records, two American college records, and one Harvard record. The track was in perfect condition, and the management almost perfect. The races were called on time, with one or two exceptions; and the audience were not wearied by delays or bad starting. The officers of the association are to be congratulated on the efficient...
...Fullerton, Nihilism (from the Phi Beta Kappa oration.)- Phillips; S. A. Bailey, Hamlet, II. ii.- Shakspere; H. E. Fraser. American Taxation.- Burke; I. L. Winter, Peroration of the Centennial Speech at Yorktown.- Winthrop; G. E. Foss, Eulogy on Wendell Phillips,- G. W. Curtis; W. H. Baldwin, Harvard College in the War. O. W. Holmes, Jr.; J. H. Payne, Dedication of the Soldier's Monument.- Garfield; O. R. Hansen, Wendell Phillips first appearance in Faneuil Hall.- G. W. Curtis...
...instructor in mathematics, and also Arthur G. Webster to a like position for the year; William B. Shubrick Clymer, A. B., in English; James Metivier, Ph. D., in French; Kuno Francke, Ph. D., in German; Frank W. Tausig, Ph. D., in political economy; Albert B. Hart. Ph. D., in American history; Harold Whiting, Ph. D., in physics; Oliver W. Huntington, A. B., in mineralogy; all the above being concurred in. The report of the committee on degrees was made and laid on the table, and that of the committee on instruction in written English was presented and referred back...
THREE MILE WALK.Entries. Bemis, '87, (scratch), E. C. Wright, '86, (1 1-2 minutes handicap). Bemis gave a splendid exhibition, breaking the American college record in the three mile walk by 1m. 11s. The time made by Mr. Bemis was 24m. 14 2 5s. The first mile was completed in 7m. 49 1-2s., the second in 16m. 1s., the third in 24-14 2-5s. Wright came in about 25 yards ahead...
PUTTING THE SHOT.Clark, '86, broke the record by a throw of 37 feet. Kip, '83, had the record, 35 feet 11 inches, which was the United States college record. Cuzner, of McGill University, Canada, holds the American college record by his throw...