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...Seniors and Students are obliged to have tickets to the different exercises, except where they go by classes...
...have an abnormal leaning - towards certain mad tendencies. You crook out your elbows; you part your hair in the middle; you brush it down flat upon your temples (such foolishness as school-girls only used to be capable of); you never by any chance confess an interest in anything except tennis and Germans. Indifference, I believe you call it. But goodness preserve me from such a disposition! it is but a form of insanity which would in the end bring us back to the condition of barbarians; their indifference is but the acknowledgment of ignorance. The less...
Eleven men entered for the standing high jump, and six competed. At 4 ft. 7 in., none were left except Keene, '80 (Harvard), and Soren, '83 (Harvard). The former beat the best amateur record, four feet ten inches, stopping at 4 ft. 11 1/4 in., while Soren surpassed every one with a record...
...meeting a young woman running away from home to be married, put her on the steps of his machine, and raced with her father and a fast horse for six miles, and beat. The Acta, usually the best of our exchanges, has nothing of any interest this week, except another romantic and extremely slangy story, "A Land Cruise," which has run through several numbers, and promises to go on indefinitely...
...seconds, and on March 8, in the Oxford Sports, Mr. B. R. Wise, Queen's, ran a mile in 4 min 27 2-5 sees., or about 10 seconds better than the best American amateur record. There is no reason whatsoever for the English records to surpass ours thus, except that the Englishmen think of competing in time to allow themselves due preparation, and it is sincerely to be hoped that our own Intercollegiate this year will prove that American colleges are not behind the English in the active interest taken in athletics...