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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Francis Phelps, of the class of 1837, died on Tuesday, in Cambridge, aged 90. Mr. Phelps taught a private school for boys in Boston for many years and was well known in this vicinity...
Stephen Chase, the world's champion high hurdler, will contribute to the May number "The History and Science of Hurdling." There will also follow by well known athletes careful studies and histories of all the sprints, distance runs, jumps and weight throwing events contained in the intercollegiate programme. Besides Chase, Hickok, Orton, Cross, Norton Shaw, Rinehart, and others, have prepared articles which will be published during the year. A. K. Moe '97 will be in charge of a special department devoted to cartoons on athletic subjects. J. E. N. Shaw '98 is among the directors...
...benefit in arrousing interest in shot putting, those who do poorly in them at first have no reason for discouragement. After all, as past experience shows, only steady, careful practice brings any decided improvement in the game, and with this kind of practice new men have been known to add as much as seven or eight feet to their records in a single season...
...bill in the New York Legislature providing for improved tenement houses and open air parks in the crowded districts of New York City. In his address he proposes to show the influence of public opinion and good citizenship in bringing about these results. Mr. Gilder is well known as the editor of the Century Magazine and has taken an active part lately in the University Settlement work in New York...
...great importance to you all. As future voters of this country you should have interest in oratory. To be able to stand on your feet and hold your own, to object to a wrong, to advance a right; all these you must do. The great men whom I have known exerted an influence and you are now to succeed them. That generation has passed off the stage. You must take their place...