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...Denickson; 440 yards, Denickson, Stackpoole, and Phillips; half-mile run, Ware, Tyler, Cohen, Gardiner, and G. Stephens; one-mile run, Ware, Brandt, Haukesworth, A. C. Smith, Wilson and Dempsey; one-mile walk, Ware and Warren; broad jump, Mapes, Boaz and Wayland; high jump, Richards and Aldridge; 120 yards hurdle, Bostwick and Safford; pole vault, Stephens; hammer and shot, Dresser; two mile bicycle, Renton, H. Y. Smith, and Gage. The tug-of-war team is not yet chosen, but J. Wheatly will be captain. From the above list of names it will be seen that Columbia has excellent chances...
...children waving handkerchiefs and joking with the jubilant sophomores. When the procession reached the college campus the effigy of Legendre was deposited upon the fatal scaffold, near which stood the sacrificial altar with its colored fires. As the students gathered around the scene of death the haruspex, Henry A. Bostwick, pronounced the doom of the victim in verse. The victim was this time represented by a goat, and he was allowed to choose between three fates-either to become a dude, to go to Harvard and be "culchawed," or to be burned upon the altar. At the mention...