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...make their records amusing reading enough; for instance, the tremendous jumping feats mentioned above were probably accomplished by throwing weights from the hands. To-day the most careful scrutiny is expended on a new athletic record, and until it has been accepted by the Spirit of the Times as correct, it is generally looked upon with suspicious eyes. The perfection of rules of measuring, starting and timing, make the present records all over the world uniform, and establish them as final when they are made. However, it can be seen that the present records are pushed down so close that...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Permit me to correct a slight misunderstanding of my communication of Friday. Your correspondent of Saturday, while eminently fair in his comments; seems to think that I base my objections to the Thames course as a course for three boats. Upon Yale's experience of last year I intended merely to cite this as an example of what at any time might be repeated. The ground for my belief in the unsuitability of the Thames course for three boats, is the statement to that effect that I heard last year from many skilled oarsmen. The CRIMSON acknowledges...
...date given in your previous issue cannot by correct, as Timothy Sprague lived between...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - We, the undersigned, have examined the accounts of the treasurer of the Harvard Athletic Association for the year ending Oct. 15, 1886, and find them correct...
...make them places of high education where cultivated tastes and refined manners are acquired. I think the colleges on the Eastern seaboard should come to an understanding with each other. It is their duty at present not to cast reflections on each other, but to unite to correct the abuses which have sprung up in connection with these public games on holidays, where we are in danger of having all the evils of our horse races, with their jockying, their betting, and their drinking. I venture to suggest that the colleges interested meet by representatives and agree on some simple...