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...Harvard University; 1760, Yale College; 1746, Princeton College; 1749, University of Pennsylvania; 1757, Columbia College; 1768, Brown University; 1769, Dartmouth College; 1770, Rutgers College; 1775, Hampden Sydney College; 1781, Washington and Lee University; 1783, Dickinson College; 1784, St. Johns College; 1785, University of Georgia; 1789, University of North Carolina; 1789. Georgetown College; 1791, University of Vermont; 1793, Williams College; 1794, Bowdoin College; 1795, Union College: 1798, Kentucky University...
...Springfield Bicycle Club have decided to hold their coming tournament on Hampden Park, September 2, 3, 4 and 5. The club will expend $20,000 in getting up the meet, and offer $8,000 in prizes. The races will be run on a half-mile track especially constructed for the purpose...
...Hendee-Robinson bicycle race for 10 miles will take place today at 3 P. M. at Hampden Park, Springfield...
...England in 1692, eight years before Yale was founded, and for a long time was the distinctive college of the South. It graduated four Presidents of the United States, and at one time had among its students Chief Justice Marshall and Gen. Scott. But after the incorporation of Hampden-Sidney and the University of Virginia, its catalogue of students became yearly smaller, until in 1860 it contained but 60 names. Among other colleges in the United States it may be interesting to know that after Harvard come, in point of age, Yale founded in 1700; the college of New Jersey...
...HARVARD HERALD: It is with considerable surprise and amusement that we discover the date "410 B. C." above the figure of Leonidas in the new window of the class of 1858, recently placed in Memorial Hall. Taking as an analogy the date 1643 A. D. above the companion figure Hampden, which marks the year of his death, we may suppose that the date above Leonidas is intended likewise to denote the year of that hero's death. But, according to general accounts, the battle of Thermopylae, with which the name of Leonidas is usually associated, was fought...