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...first event was a one-mile run, in which A. L. Lowell, '77, and C. James, '79, were the only starters. James took the lead, and kept in advance until the end of the second quarter, when he was passed by Lowell, who won the race in 5 min. 2 1/2 sec. Mr. Lowell then mounted the judges' stand, and, after receiving his prize, - a magnificent silver tankard, - leaped from the stand to the ground, and disappeared in the crowd amidst loud shouts of applause. The next event was a one-mile walk between Green, '76; Taylor, '77; and Legate...
...MORROW the third important foot-ball event comes off, - the match with Yale. A large number of men have said that they intend to accompany the team. During the match at Montreal frequent and excited disputes caused angry words and no little ill-feeling for the time, which was only dispelled by the favorable result of the game, the appearance of the groaning tables, and the good-nature of the vanquished hosts. Now we hope that the rules will be clearly understood once for all, and that the players will not make the decisions and points of the match...
...After a goal has been won sides shall be changed and the losing side shall kick off. In the event of no goal being won at the lapse of half an hour, ends shall be changed...
...battle of Lexington, Harvard College seems to have taken no active part, doubtless because the system of voluntary recitations had not then been instituted. It seems to us now as if no such exciting event as a battle could have transpired near the College without the students' having a finger in the pie; our only wonder is that the undergraduates did not march to Concord by classes, wearing battered stove-pipes and gowns turned inside out But there was probably no time for the manufacture of the requisite transparencies; and we must remember that the Harvard Drill Corps...
...owing, doubtless, to the fact that some who have been connected with schools in which drill was compulsory have been bored by it to the utmost limit of endurance, and on the part of others, that its uses and advantages have never been properly set before them. In the event of the following suggestions being adopted I will endeavor, at the first meeting of students, to give my views upon the importance of military drill to both the above-named classes...