Word: mins
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale crew rowed the two miles in 9 minutes 19 1-2 seconds, and the Harvard freshmen fought them every inch of the way, finishing about two lengths behind in 9 min. 26 1-2 sec. The Cornell crew finished three-quarters of a length behind Harvard in 9 min. 29 1-2 sec. The best freshman record for two miles-9 min. 41 sec.,- was made at New London in 1891 by the Columbia freshman crew of that year. While the conditions at Poughkeepsie are more favorable than on the Thames, and although the smoothness of the water...
...improvement over that of former years, for a good pitch has been secured and there is no need of stretching matting over the ground. Beacon Park may be reached on foot in about 15 minutes from Harvard Square via Boylston street, or by Allston car from Central Square (20 min...
...easiest terms flourish the least: S. M. Macvane in Har. Mo. XII, p. 2.- (b) Harvard is not injured by maintaining present standard of the A. B. degree.- (I) No considerable number is kept away by the four years course. (x) Number of undergraduates has trebled since 1860: Min. Rep., p. 18.- (2) No loss of prestige.- (c) Advatages of three years system are already secured without value of degree being lowered.- (1) Students may now enter professional schools after three years' work.- (x) Those who need to do so may now secure their degree in three years.- (d) Time...
...Lowering A. B. degree to fit three years requirement is injurious.- (a) To good scholarship.- (1) Invites sacrifice of thoroughness to mere passing of courses: Min. Rep., p. 18.- (b) To smaller colleges: Pres't Capen in report of Tufts College, 1889-90.- (1) They educate more than half of those receiving collegiate education.- (2) Lack of endowment would not enable them to meet the new competition.- (3) Instead of being feeders to the University they would be extinguished.- (c) To Harvard.- (1) It sacrifices the net gain since 1860-the senior year: Min. Rep., p. 15.- (d) To cause...
...Englishmen are probably stronger in the mile. Morgan of Yale bested Coolidge of Harvard in 4 min. 37 sec., but both lost their places in the intercollegiate, which was won in 3 min. 23 2/5 sec., while W. H. Greenhow of Oxford defeated Morgan by eighty yards in 4 min...