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...feet, 4 1-4 inches. Heffelfinger and Shead wsre tied for second place. The club-swinging, which followed next, was fairly contested. For the horizontal bar there were five entries, and this proved one of the most interesting, most skillfully executed events of the day. Hassaurek, '92, won first prize with Hammond, '89, second. Another Exeter record was beaten in the standing high jump, Shead clearing 4 feet, 8 1-4 inches. Heywood was second. The tumbling was entered by ten men, and was another well-contested event. Word, '90, and S. G. Wood, '89, won first and seccond places...
...SARGENT PRIZE.The Sargent Prize of $100 is offered this year for the best metrical version (of sufficient merit) of the Fourth Ode of the Third Book of Horace...
Undernraduates and special students of Harvard College, and students pursuing courses of instruction in Cambridge under the direction of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, may compete for this prize. The versions must be deposited in the office of the College Faculty on or before May 1st, 1889. For further directions see Catalogue...
...meeting was held the next year on the Union baseball grounds in Boston. Roxbury Latin won easily, taking seven out of twelve first prizes, including the tug-of-war, and one second prize. Hopkinson's won four firsts and three seconds, and St. Mark's one first and seven seconds. At this meeting, Loring of Hopkinson's made the exceptionally good record of 54 3-4 seconds in the 440 yards dash, and 24 1-4 seconds in the 220 yards dash...
...read on that occasion. During his whole course he was interested deeply in the college press. He was an editor of the Advocate, and was president of the Lampoon board, while he was one of those who founded the Monthly. In his junior year he won the Bowdoin prize by his dissertation on "The Rights and Duties of a Biographer." His senior year was one of unusual activity, for in addition to his work on the college papers, he took a prominent part in the O. K. Society, and acted as librarian and Kr. in the Hasty Pudding Club...