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...interesting to compare the best English college records with the best performances of college athletes in America. It seems that out of a total of eleven events the Englishmen hold eight, the American colleges two, while one event, the 100 yards dash, is a tie, at 10 seconds. The following is a carefully prepared table showing the best records so far announced, for American and English colleges...
...records of American colleges for the above events, Harvard holds three, namely, one hundred yards, onequarter, and one-half mile; Yale has six to credit, while Amherst and the University of Pennsylvania have each one. One the other hand, Oxford holds six of the English records, and Cambridge holds the same number, as each of them hold the record for the one hundred yards dash. The records placed to the credit of American colleges are better in several instances than the American Intercollegiate records, but they are authentic records nevertheless and were made by college athletes...
...thirteenth of July, the Cape May Athletic Association will hold its annual meeting, at which there will be a special race of 100 yards, open to all amateurs. Dohm of Princeton will probably enter...
Sixteen colleges, including Princeton will hold their commencements on Wednesday, June 19th...
This year marks the beginning of two important organizations in the University, the Andover and Exeter clubs, which hold their last meeting this week. Filling a place of undoubted usefulness, they have started out with every prospect of success and give promise of prosperity and enlarged influence in the future. We hope that next year. already placed on a successful basis, they will be able to wield an enlarged usefulness for Harvard in the schools which they represent...