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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...connection with the interscholastic indoor athletic meeting to be held in the Madison Square Garden, New York City, on Saturday evening, March 28, there will be a team race, open to teams from any college. Each college may enter six men and start four, every contestant to run the full mile. The race will be scored by points, the winner counting one for his team, second counting two, third counting three and so on, the team scoring the least number of points to be declared the winner. G. Newell '98, and D. Grant '99, will be two of Harvard...
...will go are Captain Garrett, Jr., '97, entered in the shot, broad jump, and discus throwing; Colfelt '99, in the 100 and 400 metres runs and in other sprints; Lane '97, in the sprints; and Tyler '97, in the pole vault. The faculty has given the men permission to start on Saturday...
...three Harvard speakers is due the most praise. They showed themselves thoroughly prepared upon all sides of the question, and they evinced admirable quickness and judgment. Their speeches were calm, logical, and convincing. At the start they defined the point at issue clearly, and throughout the debate they adhered closely to their original proposition, digressing only when it was necessary to in order to combat the arguments of their opponents. Without an appearance of ranting, the Harvard men spoke with quiet, straightforward eloquence, and had the close attention of the large audience while they were speaking. It was not, however...
Captain Bullard has set May 4 as the date for the annual class race. The race will be rowed up stream and will start...
...year's schooling. The Bible, however, Aesop's Fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Weems's Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools. And after a somewhat florid period of youth, his style of writing and speaking became extraordinarily simple and impressive. Lincoln's practice as a country lawyer, his repeated terms in the Legislature of Illinois and even his three years...