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...everyone who imagined that Harvard was to prove an easy winner over Yale in the second meeting of the University Track Athletic Association yesterday afternoon at New Haven, the old adage, "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," must recur as possessing peculiar relevance. Fortunately, Harvard did not make enough slips to prevent her from winning the cup and at the end of the meeting, Harvard had 61 points to her credit while Yale had to content herself with 51 points and the doubtful consolation that she came very near beating her hereditary rival...
...explanation which these facts themselves demand may in its application to the auditory sense be formulated as follows: In the case of any sequence of sound which has begun to recur the ear forms the anticipation of the further elements at the same intervals at which they originally followed one another. The application of this principle to bars of music would lead to their combination into periods according to the powers of the number...
...prodigious capacity for work. Most of his writings were calm in language, and breathe a conservative spirit; they also evince a rather nervous preoccupation on the part of the writer as to what his readers will think of them. The words "Benevolent Public," "Potent Dispenser of Fame," etc., recur very frequently. The graver pieces are those in which he displays most force; in humorous passages his pen does not run with the same lightness as Selwyn's, Shadwell's, or Doyle's. The epitaph which he composed for himself would have conveyed but a faulty idea of his talents...
...explanations offered by reciters, and to record those bits of narrative with which they may eke out an imperfect remembrance of the verse. The copy that has been taken should be read carefully to the reciter, to secure correctness, and it may happen, in this process, that something will recur to recollection which has been forgotten before...
...very sorry to have had our column omitted for the last four numbers, owing to lack of room, and we hope that the omission may not recur. During our long silence the most prominent athletic meeting which has been held was that of the Manhattan Athletic Club on Thanksgiving Day, in which connection we cannot pass over the wonderful running of Myers, the champion in the 100-yards handicap, without comment. Starting from scratch, on a track covered with snow, he finished only two inches behind J. B. White, Manhattan Athletic Club (4 yds.), the time taken by the slowest...