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...well in two of the four events in the first day of the Pennsylvania relay carnival yesterday, W. S. Blanchard '17 making an especially good showing by tieing White of Syracuse in the 56-pound weight throw with a mark of 31 feet five inches, equalling last year's record which was also made by White. In the throw off White was given first place with a mark of 30 feet one and one-half inches, Blanchard only making 28 feet...
...Meanix '19 was the other member of the University to score, placing second to Smart of Northwestern in the 440-yard hurdles, the winner being forced to make the fast time of 55 1-5 seconds. Meanix, who holds the world's record of 54 3-5 seconds in this event over three-foot hurdles, was slightly handicapped by the fact that two-foot six-inch timbers were used...
...both showed up well in the indoor meets this past winter. C. S. Babbitt '18 and R. W. Harwood '20 will be the only other members of the University to compete, both being entered in the pole-vault. Harwood is an especially brilliant vaulter, holding the University interscholastic meet record, and may score at Philadelphia today...
...record of individual ages of graduation, Dartmouth has on its list one member of the Class of 1793, who received his degree when slightly less than 15 years of age. According to the existing records this is the youngest man who has graduated from Dartmouth College. The minimum individual age of graduation at Cornell is 18 years and 11 months. At Harvard and Yale there are no available statistics kept for the individual ages of graduation, though at the former, men have been known to finish the course at a very early age. In Princeton the ages of the youngest...
...graduate from Princeton when they are over 28 years of age, and five men have received bachelor degrees from the university during the last 14 years when past 30 years of age. The oldest man graduated with the Class of 1916 at the age of 35 years. Dartmouth has record of one graduate who received his degree at the age of 39, while Cornell's oldest graduate for many years was 36 years old. --Daily Princetonian