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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Fence vault: There were only two entries for this event, A. H. Green, '92, and O. W. Shead, '93. The event was thus assured for Harvard. Green vaulted first. Both men succeeded in getting over the bar until it was put at 6 feet, 10 3-4 inches, when Shead dropped out. Green then gave a very pretty exhibition of vaulting winning the event at 7 feet, 3 1-4 inches-only half an inch less than the world's record...
Both men for the running high kick were from the M. I. T. S. C. Wason started off with C. D. Heywood second. At eight feet, eight, Wason easily hit the mark. The pan was placed at nine feet. Wason reached it, but Heywood dropped out. At nine feet three, Wason failed. Wason won first and Heywood second prize...
...boat twenty-two inches wide with two small laps. Another very heavy four-oar will carry a coxswain: it is thirty inches wide; and a lapsteak. Two lap-streak pair-oars are to be built by Blaikie and three wherries. These wherries are singles about two feet wide, lap-streaked and high enought to stand the roughest water ever seen on the Charles river. These boats though very heavy and clumsy are quite expensive and ought to be used more than any other boats at the house...
There were seven entries for the running high jump, G. R. Fearing '93, (scratch), J. P. Lee '91 (3 in.), C. W. Shead '93 (7 in.), K. Brown '91 (7 in.), W. N. Duane '92 (6 in.), A. L. Shapleigh '92 (8 inches). Brown dropped out at 4 feet 11 inches, Shead at 5 feet 1 3-4 inches. All the rest of the contestants cleared the bar at 5 feet 3 inches. Shapleigh and Duane failed at 5 feet 3 3-4 inches leaving the contest to Fearing and Lee. Lee failed at 5 feet...
...shell for the freshman crew which has arrived is much similar to those of previous years. It is about sixty feet long and was built at Troy N. Y., by Waters...