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...mile run, 51 4-5 sec.; W. H. Goodwin, '84, 1-2 mile run, 2 min. 2 sec.; G. B. Morrison, '83, 1 mile run, 4 min. 38 3 5 sec.; C. H. Atkinson, '85, running high jump, 5 feet 8 1-2 inches; W. Soren, '83, running broad jump, 20 feet, 6 inches; C. H. Kip, '83, throwing the hammer, 88 feet, 11 inches; C. H. Kip, '83, putting the shot, 35 feet, 8 inches. The cup has been won, once by Princeton, three times by Columnia and four times by Harvard. There still remain six shields...
...adoption of the elective system marked the first step in the conversion of Harvard from a conventional American college into a university of originality of plan and broad scope. Ever since that system was adopted the energies of this institution have been largely devoted to an adjustment of the several parts of the old system to suit the changed conditions of the new. What is to be the next great change in this process of growth is somewhat doubtful. The entire relegation of the arguer part of the work of the freshman year to the preparatory schools is avowedly...
...entire paper. Charles Dudley Warner, well known as an author and correspondent, says: "There is a sort of editorial ability, of facility, of force, that can only be acquired by practice, and in the newspaper office; no school can ever teach it; but the young editor who has a broad basis of general education, of information in history, political economy, the classics and polite literature has an immense advantage over the man who has merely practical experience...
...division of labor can wisely be carried to this extent in the intellectual world as it is now being carried in the physical world. The fundamental principle on which the great republic of letters is founded, the very idea of the "humanities," as the Times says, and of a broad and liberal culture, revolts against this proposition...
...privilege, the other day, of seeing a striking portrait of Dr. Peabody in the studio of Frederick P. Vinton. The painting, although not wholly completed, presents an excellent likeness, a fine effect having been produced by a broad light which gives his features a marked expression. The reverend Dr. is seated, a smile upon his face, with one hand partially extended, as it were in conversation...