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...yards behind. The hammer throwing also fell to Denniston with a record of 62 ft., Kip, his only competitior, failing to better 57 ft. 10 in. The mile-run was secured easily by G. Morrison in 5 min. 14 7/8 sec., with G. E. Lowell 75 yards behind. Lowell clung to the winner very well until into the last lap, when he found himself unable to respond to Morrison's spurt, and finished as above. Winthrop also started, but fell out at the end of the first lap. In putting the shot, Messrs. Denniston, Baxter, and Kip appeared, the latter...
...that I was endeavoring to pun upon the word. I was feeling particularly well pleased with "reaction," when my thoughts took another turn, and I began to wonder why it was that I was able to think at all. Or was it that this small power of speculation still clung to the head, even when severed from the trunk; that the ghosts, as it were, of former senses, loath to depart, still hovered about me? And it diverted me that the faculty for punning should of all be the most tenacious. I felt a new ambition, - to retain my faculties...
...leaves clung like a mantle...
...country. Surely Trinity's light is not to be hidden under a bushel. The Princetonian congratulates itself that it was not Colonel Higginson, but a Princeton man, who originated the idea of intercollegiate contests. The requiem of the Rowing Association is sung by the Brunonian: "Magnanimous Harvard clung to it to the last, as she was the first to enter it. Now, dazzled by the fancy of initiating a series of Oxford-Cambridge races, wherein if the glory of victory would be less, so would be the disgrace of defeat, she has followed Yale in retiring, and rowing in America...
...iconoclast. On the contrary, I am an implicit believer in everything old and sanctioned by custom. I do not say that these customs of ours should be given up because they are silly, but that they should be clung to tenaciously because they...