Word: records
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...universal opinion seems to be that if a man takes his own private pole to a competition he is entitled to use it and not lend it to any other competitor who might want to use it. Mr. H. H. Baxter, N. Y. A. C., who holds the best record at this game in this country, states that Leavitt was done an injustice, and if the officials at a competition where he was taking part should decide that he would have to lend his pole, which was built expressly for his weight, to a man much heavier, who was liable...
...cannot understand such a state of affairs. Surely Ninety-two has not made an enviable record, has not given the college reason to be proud of it in any respect save in its football victory last fall! After the detestable action of its nine at New Haven, comes the announcement that the class will not support the crew. We are accustomed to regard the freshman class as one to recruit the ranks of our 'varsity teams, to fill places of importance in after college years, to keep up Harvard's reputation. But of what use is a class that...
...past few years that everything file this counts doubly against the whole system. Had the nine been beaten in a squarely played game nothing would have been said, but to be soundly thrashed without an attempt at resistance is a blot on Ninety-two's otherwise fair record which cannot soon be effaced...
Throwing the hammer, won by B. W. Morris, 85ft, 7in, breaking the record J. M. Fiske, second...
Throwing hammer, 12 pounds-B. W. Morris, Jr., 97 ft. J. M. Fiske second both breaking the record...