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...last lap but one. Davis and Bailey passed Greenleaf who was thus forced to take third place. On the last lap Bailey made a beautiful spurt and when he crossed the line he was leading by about thirty feet. Time, 6 minutes and 1 second, which beats the best previous Harvard record by 11/2 seconds...
...pole vault, R. G. Leavitt beat the best previous Harvard record by clearing 10 feet, 4 inches. W. N. Duane retired after clearing 9 feet...
...regular bi-weekly meeting of the Harvard Union was held last evening in Sever 11. After the reading and approval of the minutes of the previous meeting, a question for debate at the next meeting was selected. The following is the question chosen: "Resolved, That prison labor should be made as productive as possible." The debate of the evening was then opened on the following question: "Resolved, That independence in politics should be the rule and not the exception." The debate was opened for the affirmative by Mr. D. C. Torrey, '90, who spoke somewhat as follows: The question lies...
...class races, for which the crews have been working since the first part of the college year, will be rowed next Saturday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. The course will be practically the same as that rowed in previous years, but will have to be changed slightly on account of the new bridge. As now determined the course will start from a line drawn three hundred feet from the coal sheds below the railroad bridge and parallel with a line drawn from Otter street near the Union boat house; the latter is to be the finish. The course...
...Glee and Banjo club of Princeton returned from their annual western tour on April 20th. The trip was much more extended than those of previous years and despite the fact that it occurred during Lent, large audiences were the rule wherever the clubs appeared. The singing of the Glee club was extremely good and the daily papers gave most flattering accounts of their efforts. The Banjo club made a hit everywhere and seldom played a piece without being recalled. The reportoire of the clubs contained very little classical music, old college melodies and comic airs mainly composing the progarmmes...