Word: records
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...welcome the Harvard Echo. The paper is just what it aims to be, - an interesting record of Harvard's daily life. Its tone is not literary, but we cannot expect literary excellence in a daily paper. We do expect good sense and good taste. The Echo will necessarily become the medium of much criticism upon the authorities of the University, and we respectfully recommend it to pay strict attention to the tone of such criticism. Statements to the effect that Harvard College is inculcating principles which will turn out "corrupt politicians, embezzlers, and forgers" are at least metaphorical...
Full many a Fresh with greatest cheek e'er seen The class of '83 within its depths doth bear, Full many a dollar have they, bright and pure and clean, Which neither the Ball Club nor the Boat Club nor the Junior Prom. Com. nor the Courant nor the Record nor the Lit. nor the News nor anything under heaven yet discovered, can from their pockets tear. - Courant...
...WARBURTON, who lately lowered the ten-mile amateur record in England, is willing to take pound 300 to pound 30, that he beats the record at ten, twenty, and thirty miles, commencing with the longer distances...
...running broad jump, in which there were three contestants: Messrs. F. H. Thompson, '82; A. C. Denniston, '83; and C. P. Curtis, '83. After repeated trials, the score stood: Curtis, 16 ft. 5 in; Thompson, 18 ft. 3 in.; Denniston, 18 ft. 8 in. This last is the best record yet made at Harvard...
With this brilliant record to look back upon, our men played to win last Saturday. Britannia won the toss, and played with the wind, which was blowing hard. Harvard kicked off, and the sides were so much more evenly matched than in the previous game, that the ball was kept for the most part in the middle of the ground. Before the end of the first half-hour, however, Winsor kicked a goal, - the only one scored during the game. In the last half, Britannia had only fourteen men, as P. S. Ross had been severely hurt. They did their...