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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Porter, G. J. Worcester, C...
AUGUST 20th, at the Capitoline Grounds, Brooklyn, in the games of the Putnam Athletic Club, the well-known amateur sprinter, W. C. Wilmer, broke his leg at the finish of the one-hundred-yards race. The ground beyond the end of the sprinting course is a steep embankment, and Wilmer could not stop himself in time to avoid injury. This accident is much to be regretted, as Wilmer will of course be kept off the cinder-path for the rest of the season, and will not be able to compete against the English amateur sprinters who will soon visit...
...address to be delivered by - -, F. H. R. C., who stands on the outer vestibule of the building. On the right of the speaker are the President and Fellows, supported by the Faculty and other supernumerareis of Harvard University; on his left is the late H. R. C., and in front, arranged in serried ranks after the phalanx of Epaminondas, are the four classes, while the whole body is picketed by numerous groups of those free citizens of Cambridge who have nothing to do but to admire the sublime and the beautiful...
...speaker is guilty of plagiarism throughout his address, or it is only another proof of the aphorism that "great minds," &c...
...Holden, C...