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Cambridge High...
Richards, '87, Columbia, made a record of 5 ft. 11 7-8 in. in the running high jump at the New York Athletic Club games on Saturday. This is the second best record in the country...
...general the playing 04 the Harvard team was energetic and full of "snap," but the tackling was high and the rusher with the ball was not well backed up by the other members of the team. Harding played a brilliant game, making several fine rushes and tackling well. Porter played a strong game as half-back, and made several long rushes, but he was poorly backed up. In no respect, perhaps, is the contrast between a Yale, a Princeton eleven and a Harvard eleven more marked than in the manner in which the runner with the ball is protected...
...foot-ball game with Tufts yesterday was distinguished by considerable "snap" and energy in playing. But the same old fault of tackling too high was noticeable, and in rushing the ball down the field the runner was generally poorly supported. It must be remembered that the opposing team was far from strong, and that these faults would be fatal against a heavy team such as Yale or Princeton will present. Brilliant playing was done by individual members of the eleven, but steadier team play is the great object to be attained...
...percentages and individual ranking must be a subject of congratulation to all students, for we trust that the undergraduates here in Cambridge have reached that plane of scholarship where men believe that knowledge is the aim of college life, and not that knowledge is the means whereby a high rank may be obtained. The former system of credits was notoriously unfair, for who, if he be a man of insight, will undertake to say that one deserves a percentage of ninety-eight while the work of another is placed at ninety-seven. The shade of difference is too minute...