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ATHLETICS.Taken as a whole, the times made at our fall meeting on last Saturday were fairly good. The track, of course, was rather slow, but not as much so as was generally supposed, as the time in the 100-yards, 220-yards, and hurdle-race will show, all these times being most excellent. Several men have said that the track is over distance, and that it should have been a fifth-mile measured eighteen inches from the pole. The track was laid out by a surveyor, and is a fifth-mile measured about two inches from the pole. Perhaps...
...first lecture having already been delivered by Professor Sumner. At Yale, too, they complain of the want of just such a hall as we have here, so that, with our superior advantages in this respect, there is no reason why we should not be able to get up as good a course of lectures. The chief difficulty, we know, is to get somebody to take hold of the matter, and we would suggest that some society, with the co-operation perhaps of one of the professors, follow the good example already set by the Natural History Society, and endeavor...
...Watson was first called on, and was heartily cheered, as were all who spoke. Mr. Close, the coach for three years of the Cambridge, England, University Crew, expressed the pleasure he had had as an old oarsman in seeing our crew row, and he considered it a very good one. Captain Bancroft, in an appropriate speech, presented Mr. Watson with a bronze vase, given him by the crew as an expression of their gratitude toward him. Mr. Roberts then rose, and proposed that a letter be sent to Oxford and to Cambridge by the Secretary, unofficially, asking if they would...
...Peabody of Cambridge, England, formerly captain of the Trinity first eight, on being asked his opinion, said he considered our crew much better than an average English crew, but not better than the best, for, although the material was as good as any he had ever seen, in form and finish they were inferior to the best English crew's. He, too, when asked, went on to say that he thought Cambridge would not accept a challenge, as their crew this year is an inferior one, but that Oxford probably would, as Harvard is considered there the representative college...
...games of the Athletic Association last Saturday were very good as regards sport, and brilliant as regards audience. Providence certainly has contributed its share this year towards the success of the H. A. A., for both the Saturdays on which these games have been held were exceptionally fine. The track was in superb condition, and from some of the times made it hardly seems to merit the assertion of being over length. The sports began very soon after 2 P. M. with...