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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seems likely to make the meeting more interesting. Throwing the baseball will be dropped out and the one mile run substituted. The former event has always proved tedious and slow and the mile run will tend to enliven things. It seems probable that first place will go to Worcester High. This school had no trouble in winning the indoor winter meeting, its nearest competitor being Worcester Academy. Roxbury Latin is strong in the field events and promises to make a good bid for second place. In the other schools are several very good athletes who will doubtless carry...
...Boston Athletic Association will hold open games at Irvington Oval, Huntington Ave., Monday, June 18, at 3 p. m. There will be the following handicap events: 100 yards dash, 600 yards run, mile run, 120 yards high hurdles, running high jump, and running broad jump. There will also be two scratch events for novices: 100 and 440 yards dashes...
Frank Fay was the youngest son of Willard and Charlotte Howe, and was born in Framingham on June 1, 1868. He was educated in the common schools of Framingham and was a graduate of the Framingham academy and high school, class of '87. The year 1887-88 he spent at the Phillips. Exeter Academy, entering Harvard in the autumn. Throughout his course at Harvard he took excellent stand, paying especial attention to the classics and to history. At graduation he received honorable mention in Greek and in history, and among the commencement parts was assigned a disquisition. Howe...
...Harvard Memorial Biographies' the story of the generous lives of our fellows dead in the war is told with pathetic and tender simplicity. Every page is inspiring. I read a few lines written by one of my own dear college friends, Peter Porter, sweet, high-minded, poetic, humorous, lovable comrade, scholar and gentleman. He was colonel of a New York regiment; he fell leading a charge at Cold Harbor. Before going to the war he made his will, and the words with which he began it seem to me sincerely characteristic of the spirit of modest self-conservation which...
...Running high jump won by C. J. Paine Jr., Harvard, with 5ft. 10 1-2in.; second, G. B. Becker, Cornell, with 5ft. 10in., third place tied at 5ft. 9in., between E. B. Bloss of Harvard, S. A. McComber of Brown, N. T. Leslie of the U. of P., and E. Burke of Columbia...