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...showed up well in athletics and gives promise of being the most athletic class in college, save the class of '88. A large number of freshmen are trying for the team of whom Crosby, Briggs, Burnett and Wendell are good runners. There are said to be also several good broad jumpers in the class. The team has begun training in the gymnasium; the number of candidates is large and there is a good deal of interest and enthusiasm in regard to the work. Of course it is impossible at this early day to prophesy with any certainty in regard...
...Harvard is well brought out in their catalogue. Yale is still an old-fashioned college, overshadowed to some extent by Congregationalism, compact and a strong force for education. It is a college from which men are sent forth with the stamp of their training impressed upon them. Harvard is broad and progressive, but under its present administration a certain amount of educational force must be lost. A strong scholarly nature will get rounded and polished by a Harvard education, while at Yale he may be in danger of becoming narrowed in his sphere of activity. A receptive, impressionable...
...running in the streets if they wished, that all the men should run on one street, and leave the others for the Cambridge people who certainly have a fair right to them. North avenue is the best street in Cambridge for running on, having as it does broad, smooth side-walks as far as any one is likely to run. And since this street has been tacitly conceded for the use of students, let all who wish to run out of doors run on it and leave the other for the undisturbed use of Cambridge people...
...right. Low in the middle distance is the cupola of Hemenway Gymnasinm, and further on a slender spire or two more. The whole thing is dreamy and soft and full of summer. "Elmwood" shows one side of Lowell's home with a view of the broad veranda, and in one corner a tall graceful aisle of pines "Pines of Elmwood." The etching of Longfellow's house is less original, merely giving the front view we know so well. Lastly there are "Morning in the River" and "Evening in the River," the former a sweep of the stream below the Casino...
...running broad jump was contested by C. N. Cogswell, '88 (scratch), R. G. Leavitt, '89 (6 inches), R. S. Hale, '91 (12 inches), G. W. Wheelwright, '90 (12 inches), F. Mason, '91 (12 inches); J. Wolf, '90 (10 inches). The cup was given to Wolf, who cleared 18 ft. 1-2 inch. Wheelwright took second prize, with a jump of 18ft. 5 3-4 inches...