Word: york
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON'S compilation of the records made by amateur athletes in 1888, in the issue of Wednesday, several mistakes were made which we take this opportunity of correcting. It was stated that at the intercollegiate games in New York last May, Webster, of the University of Pennsylvania, broke the world's record in the high jump, with a jump of 5 feet, 11 1-2 inches. He defeated Page at the games but did not equal Page's record which at that time was over six feet. In the pole vault, an unfair comparison was made between Shearman's record...
...Harvard Law School has one graduate in the New York Legislature...
...Academy of Syracuse, New York. has offered a prize of fifty dollars for an essay on the subject of "Teaching English in Secondary Schools." Any one is allowed to compete for the prize, which is to be awarded not so much upon literary excellence as upon the practicability of the ideas which are presented for the teaching of English in preparatory and public schools...
...Amherst Banjo and Guitar Club will attend the banquet of the New York Alumni Association at Delmonico's on the 25th...
...breaking another best record by covering 250 yards in the remarkably quick time of 25 4-5 seconds. This record will probably stand for some years, and it will be hard to find any one to beat Mr. Sherrill's remarkable performance. G. R. Gray, of the New York Athletic Club broke many records at putting the shot during the summer, and at the Amateur Athletic meeting held in New York last Saturday, he succeeded in breaking the record for putting the twenty-four-pound shot by eight inches. His throw was 33 feet, 3 inches, and he has made...