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...Olympic record of 1 minute, 54 seconds in the 800-metre race was made by Melvin Sheppard, who thus improved on Lightbody's former mark by two seconds. Halstead of Cornell in a brilliant race won the 1500-metre from J. P. Sullivan, the present A. A. U. mile champion in 4 minutes, 1 1-5 seconds and beat the former Olympic record held by Lightbody. The 3200-metre steeplechase was won by J. S. Eisele, formerly of Princeton, in the record time of 10 minutes, 47 seconds. Other performances of interest were the winning of the 400-metre...
Rand prepared for College at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he was a member of the track team for two years. He won his "H" in his Freshman year, tieing for third place in the 120-yard hurdles against Yale. Last year in the dual games with Yale he won both the 120-yard and the 220-yard hurdles, In the dual meet this year he was a close second in the 120-yards hurdles, which was won in the record time of 15 1-5 seconds...
...University chess team closed a rather disastrous season last week with the final round of the novice tournament. C.S. Hadley '10 won the match and P.C. Nash '11 was second. The team won the annual match with Yale, six games to four, but got only fourth place in the intercollegiates held at New York and fifth place in the Metropolitan league matches played in Boston. Next season, all the men who played in the intercollegiates will be back and all but one or two of the team that defeated Yale...
...baseball team till play its second game with Brown this afternoon on Soldiers Field at 3.30 o'clock, and half-hour before the time the mid-week games have usually been played. Hicks will probably oppose Nourse again, as a result of his excellent pitching last Saturday, when Brown won, 3 to 1, on errors by the University team...
...undergraduate body is to show this general public recognition for the man who has won laurels in scholarly pursuits has never been successfully worked out. The Phi Beta Kappa elections in honoring the twenty or more highest scholars in the class give to the men an excellent reward for their efforts but it does not come from the students as a whole. The broadening of the scope of the requirements of election recently has been of distinct advantage in securing a group of men representing the best and sanest types of intellectual students, but it is not given them...