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...track athletics dates back to 1881, and since that year, with a short interval, he has trained the teams. In that long period of service, Harvard won eleven intercollegiate meets, establishing the unique record, back in the eighties, of winning the championship at the old Mott Haven games for six years in succession. Since the dual meets with Yale were established in the early nineties, seven victories were won under Mr. Lathrop's direction. To renew such a record of successes of former years is possible and this task is now placed in Mr. Donovan's hands...
...comment on the ground that one had to support the more difficult side of the proposition. It is, in addition, more expedient as it obviates the necessity of preparing for two separate debates in the same half-year. Furthermore, the invidious second team will be eliminated, thus enabling the six best debaters in each university to participate in the argument, whereas before only three men took part, the second team gaining little or nothing by its work in preparation...
...discovery of the balloon, Dr. Jeffries of Boston made an ascent for a scientific study of the atmosphere, and soon after crossed the English Channel in his balloon. As was found out after these experiments, the upper strata of the air at a distance of more than five or six miles from the earth, were both too cold and too rarefled for human beings. Mechanical contrivances for recording temperature and pressure were therefore devised and sent up in empty balloons. These were made of rubber which steadily expanded as it rose and finally exploded, forming a parachute that brought...
...continue till the end of the week, are being held in the new rooms of the club at Grays 20. Thirty-five candidates handed in their names, seven of these being men who were on the team which beat Yale last year. The men are divided into sections of six, in each of which a round robin tournament is being played. The two best from each section will be retained, and from these the team that is to play Yale will be chosen...
...election of six members of the Student Council, held yesterday in the CRIMSON office, resulted in the choice of the following...