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...yesterday was about the same in length as that of a week ago, but was characterized by faster running than usual, the finish being made by the hares in 1 hour 6 1/2 minutes. The hares led the course across Brighton bridge, half way to Allston, and then across the fields to Beacon Park, through the park around back of Allston, circling Corey Hill by a long detour, coming around by Brighton, and then down the railroad track half way to Allston, where the bags were left among the stockyards. The hounds were detained five or six minutes, hunting...
...this heroic and self-sacrificing endeavor and the more he knew of the work and its representatives the more he esteemed both, and such would be the case with all as they become acquainted with President Dreher and the college. Roanoke is now what Harvard was 100 years ago, in buildings and the number of professors, though Harvard then had some endowment...
...18th, 1882. - Columbia may well be called the Rip Van Winkle of American universities, for she surely has fallen into a sleep from which there are no signs of her waking before a great deal of the sweet bye-and-bye has become part of the happy long ago. Everything seems to have come to a standstill. Foot-ball, for which the fall regatta was abandoned that it might occupy all our attention, seems to take it out in occupying. The cricket club is non est, and cannot attract enough attention to get up a decent funeral. Base-ball, towards...
Several "dark horses" have loomed up for the freshman eleven. The chances for defeating Harvard '86 are said to be much better than a month ago. - [Yale Courant...
...throwing of the discus were to the Greeks; what cricket is to the English; what base-ball is to Americans; a game that attracted the attention and tried the skill of the bravest warriors, of the most agile athletes. Kings and queens and royal chieftains were wont, even centuries ago, to take part in the sport. We have said that baggatiway was a national game. It was, however, played differently by different nations. The Choctaws played it with two sticks, each about two and a half feet long, with the end about the size of a large spoon. The Sioux...