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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Ellis, '90, won the hundred yards dash in eleven seconds. Gates, '93, won second place after a hard race with Reed. In the running broad jump Bloss, '90, distinguished himself by jumping 20 ft. 10.5 in., beating his last year's record by six and a half inches. Sayre, '92, second, jumped 17 ft. 8.5 in. Three men came to the scratch in the mile run. The first quarter was run in 1 minute, 16 seconds, the men all bunched; in the third quarter Strong, '92, was well in the lead and flnished the mlle in 5 minutes, 13.5 seconds...
...poet, as journalist and as orator, and draws a pleasant picture of the honor and love which attended his latter days. The keynote of Bryant's character, his perfect uprightness, is here strongly dwelt upon. Through all the temptations of a newspaper editor's life, Bryant never swerved an inch from what seemed to him the path of honor. An interesting incident in his life, now made public for the first time, is a letter written in 1814, when Bryant was a boy. He was much excited over the war with England, and the way in which "His Imbecility...
...feet 10 1-2 in., and Fearing cleared it at the first attempt. Then the bar was put at 5 feet 11 1-2 in, and again Fearing cleared it at the first attempt, beating the Harvard record held by H. L. Clark, '87, by 3-4 inch. The bar was then raised to 6 feet 1-4 in., and Fearing cleared it without any effort. At 6 feet 1 in., Fearing failed after three trials, although at the first attempt he got well over the bar, but struck it with his shoulder in coming down...
...field events nearly all took place at the same time with the track contests, and were as follows: Throwing the hammer, two contests, won by H. R. Allen, '92, with a throw of 89 feet, and by H. S. Evans, '93, distance 83 feet, 4 inches. The three contests in the running high jump were won by J. P. Lee, '91, with a jump of 5 feet, 3 1-2 inches; A. H. Green, '92, who cleared 5 feet. 5 1 2 inches, and G. R. Fearing, '93. Fearing's competitor dropped out in the beginning of the contest...
BICYCLE FOR SALE.- Columbia Standard, 54 inch, half nickel. Price $25. Address Room 3, 40 Kirkland St., Cambridge...