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...MILE WALK. (Handicap).1, H. H. Bemis, '87, (scratch); 2, Rupert Norton, '88, (20 seconds); 3, E. C. Wright, '86, (scratch); 4, F. E. Zinkeisen, '89, (20 seconds). This proved to be the best race of the afternoon. Both scratch men were inside the previous inter-collegiate record, 7 m. 4 4-5 sec., made by Eldredge, of Columbia, in 1877. Norton and Zinkeisen were caught and passed by the other two at the half mile. From that time until on the back stretch of the last quarter Bemis led, closely followed by Wright, who then passed...
...mile walk (handicap). - 1, H. H. Bemis, '87, (scratch); 2, Rupert Norton, '88, (20 sec.); 3, E. C. Wright, '86, (scratch); 4, F. E. Zinkeisen...
...Rupert, president of the Sheff. Gun Club of Yale, has written to the management of the Shooting Club with a view to arranging a rifle match between the colleges...
Heidelberg University is one of the oldest in all Germany, and has had an eventful history. It was founded as early as 1356 by the elector Rupert, but did not acquire the sanction of the Pope, then indispensable to institutions of learning, until 1386. It was modeled after the Paris University of more ancient date, and rejoiced in no less than four faculties, who governed and controlled all matters relating to the college, both financial and education. For many years it was without a library, but this was added by one of the later electors. During the stormy period...
Between 10 and 11 o'clock the schooner Alice M. Ridgeway, Captain Snow, from New Bedford, passed between the rock on which he was standing and Gooseberry neck. She was at the nearest point, from a quarter to half a mile away from him. Rupert made all the signals of distress that he could in his exhausted condition and Captain Snow saw them. But the Ridgeway had a deck load of empty barrels which the captain says would have been jeopardized if he attempted to lay to and lower a boat. And he passed on without any attempt to render...