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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Pole vault, Crane, '90 and Mason '91, were entered from Harvard, Ryder from Yale, Curry from the B. A. A., and Ewing from Amherst. Crane and Mason both failed on the first trial. The bar was gradually put up higher, and the vaulting made more difficult. Mason was the first to drop out at 8 ft., 7 inches. At the next raise Ryder and Ewing both failed at first and finally secceeded in getting over the bar. All the men but Curry failed at first when the bar was put at 9 feet, 4 in. Crane dropped out at this...
...third service of ethics is to give us a clear insight into social questions. Some economists say that only on the supposition that self-interest is the ruling human motive, is the greater part of economical laws founded. It is not difficult to see the inevitable result of the system of self interest, the weakest perishing, the strongest leading a life of little more than nervous prosperity. The problem is to bring to the hearts of men the fact that disregard of ethics is the cause of earthly misery. Social disorder can be changed to happiness; there...
Tumbling was the first event. Five men had entered but only J. B. Henderson, '91, appeared, and with Mr. Bowler, the assistant at the gymnasium, performed many difficult and astonishing feats of tumbling. The contest was highly interesting and called forth much applause. Henderson was given...
...will probably have Jarvis field, or some other college field for practice. The use of these grounds will bring cricket before the college more prominently than ever before; and additional interest will be given by the match with Yale which it is hoped to arrange. The game is not difficult to learn, and no one should be deterred from becoming a candidate for the eleven on account of inexperience. A quick eye and a cool head are the chief requisites; the rest can be acquired by practice. Harvard's showing last year was better than that of the year before...
...more attention paid to the finer points of body-work and watermanship. Since the speed of a crew depends on its mastery of details, the progress of it can best be judged by the speed and thoroughness with which every man acquires these fine points. Good time is a difficult thing absolutely necessary to a fast crew; in the present crew the time has been poor for the last week. Some men go back too far-a dangerous fault hard to get over...