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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PROFESSOR PAINE has been highly complimented by one of the leading English musical journals...
...subject for the first debate in English 6 is as follows: "Is it desirable that the suffrage should be limited in the United States?" Affirmative: Andrews, Smith, Norton: Negative: Lester, Price, Hale. The debate will take place on Thursday, October 16, and visitors will be admitted...
...following are considered the best of the twenty-eight English amateurs who have offered to compete in this country. Ball, quarter-mile runner; George, one-mile and four-mile champion; Massey, of the London Athletic Club; Venn, the seven-mile walker; Allan, the short-distance runner; Warburton, a runner; Shaw, the hundred-yards runner; Strachan, of the London Athletic Club, the high-jumper and hurdle-jumper, and Squires, the winner of the thirty-miles walking, and sixty-miles "go-as-you-please" contests...
...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...
...first place this victory will have a decided effect upon American college rowing. It has proved beyond further question the superiority of the Harvard stroke, and the worthlessness of the system of rowing in which Yale has persisted. The effect will be to make final the adoption of the English method of rowing in this country...