Word: day
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Class Day Committee...
...four trial heats were run in 48 3/4 sec., 50 1/4 sec., 50 3/1 sec., and 51 1/2 sec., while the final was won in 47 3/4 sec. This is on an eighth of a mile track, and a cold windy day, while the fastest professional time in the world is 48 1/4 sec., the fastest English amateur time 50 2/5 sec., and the fastest American amateur time 52 1/5 sec. This latter was made July 4, 1878, on the best track in America, warm day, no wind, and in a race between the fastest two men we have...
UNDER the title of "England's Great University," Mr. M. D. Conway gives a very interesting account in the December Harper's of Oxford as it is at the present day. As the usual ideas about the English universities are rather vague on this side of the water, not to say incorrect, we give a short summary of the article...
...first place, we must remember that Oxford is constantly changing. Most of us derive our ideas on this subject from reading "Tom Brown"; but the Oxford of to-day is by no means what it was when Thomas Hughes saw it. The purse-proud regime has been reduced, the tandem-driving lords and snobs are unknown. The "Town and Gown" row is a thing of the past, so is that unappeasable thirst for beer by which the youth of that time seemed to have been impelled. The writer states that a student who should anywhere be seen tipsy would lose...
...Seniors met in Boylston Hall last Monday evening to elect officers for Class Day. The meeting was called to order at half past seven by Mr. E. Robinson, chairman of the Committee appointed to arrange the preliminaries for the election. The report of the Committee and the rules drawn up by them for conducting the meeting were read and accepted. The selection of Mr. Thorp as chairman received the approbation of the class, and, after a few preliminary remarks, the business of the evening was introduced...