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...style, A. K. Dearborn, the former Wesleyan weight thrower and New England intercollegiate record holder for the discus throw, best Martin J. Sheridan's former world's record of 136 feet, 2 inches, with a throw of 139 feet, 11 inches. In a heat of the 100-metre race, Robertson of Virginia equalled Jarvis's world's record of 10 4-5 seconds...
...credit are due to Miss Adams and the members of her company, to Mr. Charles Frohman, and the committee of the English Department who had the matter in hand. Their enthusiasm and energy have made the performance in every way a great success, equalled only by Mr. Forbes Robertson's attainment in April...
...University have been awaiting for many weeks the performance of "Twelfth Night" which Miss Maude Adams and her company will present in Sanders Theatre this evening at the request of the English Department of the University. It is but a little more than four years ago that Mr. Forbes Robertson gave a memorable presentation Hamlet on the same Elizabethan stage, and the Department is to be congratulated on procuring such an admirable production to continue this series of Elizabethan drams. It is, after all, a great compliment that an actress of Miss Adams's renown should be willing...
...said, was to be a writer of history, and his early life was one of constant study and preparation for his great life work, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." This work is one of the greatest historical works written, and has placed Gibbon with Hume and Robertson at the head of English historians. Gibbon's idea was that history, besides the necessary technicalities, should be literature, and this was a great factor in his success...
Summary: HARVARD. McGILL. Pell, l.c. r.c., Gobier, Pedley Hicks, l.c. r.c., Ramsay Rumsey, r.c. l.c., Raphael Newhall, Gardner, r.e. l.e., Robertson Ford, c.p. c.p., Roberts Willetts, p. p., Dunn Washburn, g. g., Reed...