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...best American collegiate record in the quarter-mile run is 50 3/4 seconds, by W. H. Goodwin, Jr., Harvard, at Harvard games, Jarvis Field, Cambridge, Mass., May 24, 1881. We are aware that, in the Yale games, at Hamilton Park, New Haven, Conn., May, 19, 1883, H. S. Brooks, Jr., Yale, ran a quarter-mile in 50.2-5 seconds; but this was on a half-mile trotting-track, measured 3 feet from the pole, and performances made there cannot be accepted as genuine records, in comparison with times made on paths measured in accordance with amateur athletic law. [Spirit...
...steamer Granite State, running between Hartford, Conn., and New York, was totally destroyed by fire at Goodspeed's Landing yesterday morning. Three lives were known to have been lost...
...weeks ago, it will be remembered, Prof. Sumner of Yale made some remarks in a lecture on free trade which were at once taken up as a challenge by advocates of protection. The superintendent of the thread mills at Willimantic, Conn., embraced the opportunity to invite a number of Yale students to inspect the mills. Free transportation and a free lunch induced upwards of two hundred and fifty students to accept the invitation. The excursion was a grand success. The trip was a pleasant one, and the Yale students were much pleased with what they saw. The mills alone were...
...Ansonia Hotel, at Ansonia, Conn., was burned early yesterday morning, the guests escaping, however, without injury...
Harrison Johnson of Putnam, Conn., a graduate of the Harvard Law School in 1845, died Sunday...