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...same number the well-known editor of the Railway Age, Mr. Harry Perry Robinson, describes in detail "the fastest run ever made"- the recent speed run between Chicago and Buffalo, when 510 miles were traversed at an average speed of 65.07 miles an hour, and a speed as high as 92.3 miles an hour was attained. Mr. Robinson was one of the official time-keepers. Mr. Murat Halstead, long editor of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and now editor of the Brooklyn Standard Union, relates the history of Garfield's nomination and administration, giving important conversations with Garfield and interesting personal...
...published in today's CRIMSON, may not a member of that school add a word of thanks and praise, to show that there exist in the student body the same feelings of gratitude and affection towards Professor Peirce as are held by his confreres on the Faculty? In some recent trouble, I had occasion for his assistance and advice; and the kindliness and refined sympathy I received were such as one might expect rather from a parent than from a busy college official. I learned from others, moreover, that the same kindness and dignity were his, not only on this...
...University of Chicago Weekly contains a statement which for a frank and plain-spoken exposition of the condition of athletics in at least one western college, rivals in interest the recent utterances of Harper's Weekly on the same subject. The item in question reads as follows...
...members of the University and especially those who are doing work in the department of History and Political Science, to the important announcement concerning the prizes which are open to competition this year. In a former issue we suggested that one of the best ways of meeting the recent call for a more public and general recognition of high scholarship in the University was by giving a greater prominence to the competition for prizes and by otherwise encouraging that competition. This end promises to be met by the system announced today whereby the theses required in the courses in History...
...fact the public is beginning to feel very strongly the value of this branch of college work and to watch with great interest the intercollegiate contests. Yale realizes this, and her new Eating Club debates, and the recent defeat of Princeton warn Harvard to look to her laurels...