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...Oxford-Cambridge race on Saturday resulted in an easy victory for the Cambridge men, who led from the start. Oxford broke an oar at the end of the third mile, but rowed out the race pluckily. Cambridge had a professional coxswain...
...competition of the pole vault, Leavitt, '90, again broke the Harvard record, clearing 9 feet 8 1 2 inches. Wheelwright vaulted 9 feet...
...struggled bard for the third and deciding fall. Bowen did most of the offensive work, but Hunter avoided every grip, and Bowen knew the uselessness of trying to turn him over. More time had to be given for the men to rest. Finally Hunter got a good grip, Bowen broke it and put him squarely on his back. Bowen won two falls...
...late Professor Edward R. Sill was a sophomore at Yale when John Brown was killed, and was one of the four [students who on that occasion broke into the chapel and draped it with mourning emblems...
...feet 6 3-4 inches by T. G. Shearman, '89. Page of Pennsylvania is considered good for 5 feet 10 1-2 inches at any time. The next event, which is of interest to Harvard men, was the pole-vault, which was won also by T. G. Shearman. He broke the Yale record with a vault of 10 feet 3 1-2 inches. Harvard's best record this year is but 9 feet 3 1-2 inches. The meeting was closed with sparring and fencing contests, which are of none but local interest...