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...indoor handicap games of the Cambridgeport Gymnasium Association will take place at the Cambridgeport Gymnasium, corner of Prospect and Harvard streets, Monday evening, February 8, at 8 o'clock. The open events will be as follows: 20-yard dash, 440-yard run, 880-yard run, one-mile run, running high-jump, putting 16-pound shot. An entry fee of 25 cents will be charged for the first event entered, and 10 cents for each other event. The entries, which close tonight, may be made with J. W. Bean, of the Cambridgeport Gymnasium Association...
...street. The bridge contemplated will be a drawless structure of wood, sixty feet wide. The cost, which is estimated at $100,000, is to be divided equally between the cities of Boston and Cambridge. The height of the bridge over the channel will be twenty-six feet above mean high water, and will necessitate raising the present grade of the street...
...first shoot of the interclass series, held at Wellington yesterday afternoon, the Seniors defeated the Juniors, by the score of 90 to 86. Each man shot at 50 birds thrown at unknown angles, from expert traps. A high wind made accuracy difficult. The individual scores were as follows...
...fiction, with the possible exception of "The Duke's Daughter," which succeeds by not aspiring too high, is hard to read and decidedly unsatisfying. Two stories involving college men as characters are tiresome and force the suggestion that in the search for "filler" the editor's drawer is being taxed too heavily. It seems a pity that a story so well written as "From the Best of Friends," should be spoiled by lack of clearness; less length and an explanation of some strange conversations and unaccountable actions would save it from being classed with the other stories of the issue...
Several interscholastic events are scheduled, in addition to interclass and interschool relays of Columbia University. The open events are as follows: 60-yard dash, handicap; 600-yard dash, handicap; one-mile run, handicap; high jump, handicap, limit of 6 inches; putting 16-pound shot, handicap, limit of 6 feet; pole-vault, handicap, limit of 10 inches. Two Amateur Athletic Union championship races, a 60-yard dash and two-mile run, are also scheduled...