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Hugh H. Baxter, of the New York Athletic Club, beat all previous records in pole-vaulting last Friday, having vaulted 11 ft. 3 in. The best previous record, also made by Baxter, was 10 ft. 9 in. Sherman, of Yale, won second prize with an actual vault...
...comment in the newspapers of the day, and particularly in the college press, as to put in an unfair light the liberal policy of our university. It has suddenly become the fashion for many other colleges to wash their hands of Harvard's system and to put themselves on record as supporters to a greater or less extent of the conservative spirit. It is, of course, obvious that a blind liberal policy is more dangerous than a blind conservative policy, but that critic of the Harvard system who designates it as blindly liberal shows immediately his in competency...
...bound volumes added to the University Library during the year, 10,885 were added to Gore Hall. 4027 to the Divinity School, 677 to the Law School and the rest scattered amongst the various departments. These accessions are the largest on record, and surpass the number of volumes added during the academic year 1886-87 by about 4,500 volumes. The present extent of the University Library is 343,318 bound volumes, and 276,682 pamphlets...
...Kiernan kept during January, February and March, 1888. a record of the fiction used. Of the 15,540 books drawn out in those months, 3027 volumes were prose fiction, and these were mainly taken out by the lower classmen...
...average number of absences of the men engaged in athletics above the average of their class was-for the Mott Haven team, 1; the crew, nine, and cricket team, 5; the leading tennis players, 7, and the eleven, 8. On the other hand the lacrosse team had a record of six less absences than their class average. The freshmen again fall behind. The nine had an average of eight more absences than their class, and the eleven 23 more; while the crew was about on a par with the remainder of the class, and the lacrosse team had 18 less...