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...contests had to be run in darkness so great the contestants were totally indistinguishable one from another. Wendell, '82, won the 100-yards and the 1/4-mile run, the former of which, however, he nearly lost, through the track at the start being so loose that he slipped and nearly fell, giving his contestants at least six yards the advantage of him. He caught the leader, however, only about five yards from the tape, F. A. Thompsen (formerly of Harvard, '82) finishing a good second. Thompsen also took second prize in the hammer, with a record...
...looked at my eyes, which I felt were slowly gaining the fiendish, yellowy glare. Pale, paler than the snow beneath our feet he grew as he saw the bristly gray hide shoo : over my doublet and hose, while my belt, unclasped and clothed with a bushy gray hair, fell down behind. "Sainte Vierge" he cried, his eyeballs starting from his head, as he tried to flee. "Madelon," I snarled, as I leapt after him, "Madelo-o-o-o-o-n;" and my gay gray comrades answered from the forest, "O-o-o-o-n," as they sprang out from...
...against the little pier in front of the Bay View House. So I got ashore as best I could, and, feeling as if an entire planetary system was whirling within my brain, I stumbled up to the hotel, and, in a sort of daze, got to my room and fell asleep at once...
...fell over...
...them, and we were glad to see that, with one exception, every man whose name was entered appeared and covered his distance. The running high jump was contested by Messrs. G. B. Morrison and A. C. Denniston, the former of whom, although jumping in very good form, fell out after clearing 5 ft. 1 1/2 in., and left the victory to Denniston, who succeeded in getting over 5 ft. 7 1/2 in., thus beating the best previous Harvard record by 4 1/2 in., and falling only 3/4 of an inch below the best American record. Messrs. G. E. Beals...