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...diagram represents Dr. Sargent's anthropometric chart for the plotting of the physical development. "The parts at which the observations were made, are indicated by the list at the left side of the chart. The perpendicular lines divide into classes all of the measurements for each part that were surpassed or unsurpassed by given percentages of the persons examined, as shown by the figures at the top of the chart. The upper number at the top of the line shows the per cent, that at each part surpassed the class indicated by that line. The lower number shows...
Since "records" have been registered with methodical exactitude it has been found, as was only likely, that every now and again some athlete has been able to surpass what has been done before in the various branches of sport. Particularly has this been the case in recent years, but the last one has been the most remarkable for the numerous "records" which have been cut. Week after week some fresh achievement has been accomplished, and there is scarcely a single branch of athletics in which one or more have not been registered. This has been so in every description...
...freshman crew is a new one. It was inaugurated by the present junior class, and the sophomore class followed in the steps of its predecessor. '90 has been not a whit behind and has worked hard and faithfully to give the public an exhibition which bids fair to surpass that of previous years. It is to the credit of the freshmen that they have not been deterred by the difficulties to be overcome in preparing this concert, but have persevered and conquered every obstacle. Every one of the class of '90 ought to buy one or more tickets to this...
...Harvard Monthly" for March is full of good work, and surely equals, if indeed it does not surpass, any of this year's issues...
...lavish generosity. You must have been saving your pennies and denying yourselves candy and chewing-gum ever since you entered college! But what would a man not sacrifice for his college! Harvard men have always been pointed out as exemplars of patriotism; but the fame of Ninety shall surpass all. We can safely say that never since the organization of an university crew, has any freshman class contributed so generously as the present one. Fifty-eight dollars! Ninety, Mother Harvard flushes with pardonable pride as she pats you on your little head and sighs with deep emotion...