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POLE VAULT: - High, 11 ft. 1-2 inch. Baxter...
...several newspapers, notably one at Yale, have published incorrect reports of the affair, we have obtained the exact facts, which are as follows: On account of the protest against Bonine, which if he had been placed, might have given second prize to third man, Mr. Baxter was deputed to place the third man. As the runners finished, first and second almost abreast, and third add fourth almost even, but 4 feet behind the leaders, he could not accurately judge between first and second without running the risk of making a mistake in his special duty of placing third...
...informal club dinners ever sat down to in Denver, was that given last night, at the Albany Hotel, by the Rocky Mountain Harvard Club. About 8 p.m. the Harvard graduates at present in the city, were called together in the main parlor, and a permanent organization effected. Joseph N. Baxter, '75, was chosen president, and the Rev. Thomas Van Ness vice-president, and Chambers Baird, '82, secretary. After the constitution of the club had been adopted the members, with their guests, repaired to the elegant dining room, which was fitted up with neat floral designs, and the crimson color...
About thirty plates were set, and after the menu had been served, the toast master, Mr. J. N. Baxter, called for the speeches. Joseph A. Sewall, President of the State University, spoke eloquently of Harvard. The grand old school, he said, was never old and never would be. Its history was rapidly reviewed and the leading part its students had taken in all great National movements. At its close, Rev. Thomas Van Ness made some humorous remarks on the various characteristics of Harvard, ironically referring to those 'fresh water colleges' which did not enjoy the advantages...
...striking picture of Russian home-life fifty years ago. Two articles, " Time in Shakespeare's Comedies," by Henry A. Clapp, and " The Consolidation of the Colonies," by Brooks Adams, together with a paper called " The Brown-Stone Boy," and a Mexican travel paper, " A Plunge into Summer," by Sylvester Baxter, complete the longer articles of the number. The usual book reviews and short notices, together with the Contributor's Club (which contains a criticism of Mr. Watts's pictures), close this issue. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston...