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...revised list of events: 100-yard dash, 440-yard dash, 880-yard run, mile run, two-mile run, 120-yard high hurdles, 120-yard low hurdles, running high jump, running broad jump, pole-vault, 12-pound hammer-throw, 12-pound shot-put. Cups will be given for first and second places in each event, as last year, and there will be no entrance free...
...communications in another column indicate how seriously the situation is viewed by the captains of the Senior and Sophomore teams. As the first games are to be played next week it is very essential that the class captains have larger squads immediately...
...first of the inter-dormitory bumping races will be rowed this afternoon over the same course as last year. The race will start at the long stretch above the Boylston street bridge beyond the second bend, and, instead of finishing at this bend as was originally planned, the race will continue to the Newell boathouse and end between it and the range flags placed on the opposite bank. The crews will row in two divisions, starting at 3.30 and 4 o'clock respectively, and will take their positions in the following order...
...First division--1, Mt. Auburn street; 2, Claverly; 3, Beck-Hampden-Fairfax; 4, Randolph; 5, Thayer; 6. Westmorly; 7, Weld...
...start 60 feet apart from bow to stern, the starting positions being indicated by buoys, placed in the river at the proper intervals. Number one in each division will be farthest down-stream. A series of three shots will be fired for a starting signal. Between the first and second shots there will be two minutes, and between the second and third one. The third shot will be the signal for the start. Referees will be stationed along the shore, and bumps will be signaled either through a megaphone or by a pistol shot. As soon as the signal...