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...Princeton Athletic games on Saturday the winners were as follows : 100 yards dash, Griffith, '86, time, 10 3 4 s.; 220 yards dash, A. T. Fell, '84, time, 25s.; quarter-mile run, H. Hodge, '86, time, 59 1-8s.; half-mile run, Coolidge, '84, time 2m. 19 3-4s.; one-mile run, Leavitt, '84, time. 4m. 58 1-2s.; one-mile walk, Mumford, '85, time, 8m. 56 3-4s.; 120-yard hurdle, Harriman, '85, time, 19 1-4s.; pole vault, H. Hodge, '86, distance, 8ft. 6in.; running broad jump, Vankirk, '84, 20ft. 1in.; running high...
...beginning of Moscow by its desperate inhabitants after its capture in 1812 by Napoleon, checked the progress of the university somewhat ; the museums and all the buildings fell a prey to that disastrous conflagration. Soon, however, the losses were made good, and the university regained its former prestige...
...played their second match, preparatory to leaving for Europe, against our nine on Saturday. Several hundred people gathered in and around Jarvis to see the game, the majority being outside the fence as usual. The rain of the morning made the ground rather slippery and many times the players fell in trying to dodge their opponents. Our team was weakened by the loss of Hood, who was suffering from a sore hand, and of Henry, who came on the field late. Game was called at 3.30, Abbot facing the ball with his opponent in the centre of the field...
...crew gained, and immediately after, the the other would recover the lost distance. A half-mile from the finish the university crew, inch by inch, drew away from the seniors, and, though the latter raised the the number of their strokes to 38 to the minute, they slowly fell behind, until at the finish they were about three quarters of a length in the rear. The time of the winning crew was 11 min., 44 sec., whild the seniors came in about four seconds later. The seniors, at times, rowed as many as 39 strokes to the minute, and never...
results in the lives of personal acquaintances. The most brilliant men in several fields whom he ever knew-in law, mathematics, architecture, mercantile life, oratory,-all fell victims to this curse, and by it lost their lives...