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...About 8 o'clock there was a commotion in the lobbies, and, shortly, a long line of Harvard boys attired in the high aesthetic garb and with enormous sun-flowers held before them advanced up the main aisles with an unimpeachable piccadilly gait. There were many artistic impersonations of Bunthornes and Grosvenors poets freshly and idyllic who might have walked directly from the stage of "Patience." At every step they posed in the most approved mediaeval and antediluvian fashion. The audience rose in a body and, standing upon the seats, roared and applauded. The students acknowledged the compliment, and marched...
...plausible reasons for this outburst of the Harvard editor have been suggested. One is, that Tufts has anticipated Harvard in the adoption of the Oxford cap, a thing which the university cannot brook; the other, that the novelty of the Oxford cap withdraws public gaze from the particularly ungainly gait of the Harvard student. A word of consolation may be offered. No Oxford cap can long rival, in the public eye, the ungraceful amble. In all probability the students of Tufts will continue to wear their Oxford caps wherever they...
...being in quite a number of different places in a very short space of time. To be sure, I had never paced him on a regular professional track, but it seemed to me that he was in the habit of marking off the prairies at a remarkably cheerful gait. In short, I looked upon him as quite a jewel in an equine way. So when I came eastward, about the first of September, I brought Ceph (Ceph is familiar for Bucephalus) along with me, and we settled down in a little New Hampshire village, with the intention of wearing away...
Full wel he knoweth the jaunty gait...
...resulted in a dead heat between Messrs. A. Thorndike and J. S. Bell in the excellent time of 4 min., 50 1/8 sec., the best previous Harvard record being 4 min. 56 sec., made by Bell last spring. Their styles were noticeably different, Thorndike striking a long swinging gait, while Bell took a short, quick step, and apparently labored much more than his opponent. They will both run on Saturday, and are both entered for Mott Haven likewise, so we may expect to hear still better accounts of one or both of them before the 1st of June next...