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...Green '92, who at the recent indoor meeting of the Metropolitan Association, was credited with a vault for distance of 26 ft. 4 3-4 in., thus beating his own record of 26 ft. 4 1-2 in., has not been allowed the record owing to an error in measurement...
DEAR SIRS. - Allow me to call attention to an error in the editorial of Thursday on the Dudleian lecture. The lecture on the Romish Church was not postponed from last year, but was the regular one in course. Last year's lecture was also in regular order and was given by a Roman Catholic Bishop who had full knowledge of the subject of the lecture for this year...
...disturbances this year have been discovered by the steward of the hall and his assistants, and it is a relief to know that most of them are new to the University. It is to be hoped that this warning will be sufficient to show them the error of their way. Another repetition of the hissing on the same slight provocation will certainly lead to results extremely unpleasant to themselves...
...unfortunate error was made in this column recently when speaking of some statistics about the numbers in this year's freshman class. Comparing the number of men drawn by the classes now in college from the west in their freshman years it was said that the number of western men in '95 is 50, while the number in '94 was 38, in '93 it was 34, and in '92 was 60. Of course this last number was a mistake; the number of western men in '92 when the class entered college was 39, and this is what it was intended...
...editorial in which this error occurred has been made the subject of comment by the paper of the University of Michigan, which takes this occasion to ridicule our pretensions to any strength in the West. Adding the figures given by the CRIMSON this paper makes a total of western men in the freshman classes at Harvard for the past four years of 182, and goes on: "This is the total for all the West, or about four-fifths of the United States. Now look on this: At the University of Michigan last year there were 223 students from the Eastern...