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...29th of May next, at Mott Haven. The events will be : 100-Yards Dash, 220-Yards Dash, 1/4-Mile Run, 1/2-Mile Run, 1-Mile Run, 1-Mile Walk, Running High Jump, Running Broad Jump, Standing High Jump, Standing Broad Jump, Pole Vaulting, 120-Yards Hurdle-Race, Throwing the Hammer, Putting the Shot, 2-Mile Bicycle Race, and Tug of War (teams of 4 men), The entries close on Saturday, May 15, next, and must be sent to W. F. Morgan, 1 East 40th Street. New York, on or before that date...
Pass on a score of years, and what has our professor become? A workman with a sledge-hammer, trying to drive his hobbies into the heads of his pupils. If he be a chemist, the world to him is one great molecule, whose properties must be found; and he is bent on showering globules of his solution on all who approach him. If he is a zoologist, he regards you as an animal, and discovers, if you have six toes, the bond of kinship between you and extinct ichthyosauri. If a linguist, he is for ever overwhelming you with dead...
...Throwing the hammer...
...Throwing the hammer...
...heat in 24 2/5 seconds. Lawson of Columbia won the first heat in the 120-yard hurdle-race in 20 seconds, Cowdin of Harvard winning the second in 19 3/4 seconds, and the final heat easily in 19 2/5 seconds. The other sports worthy of mention were: Throwing the hammer, won by Larkin of Princeton by a throw of 87 feet 1 inch; the running high jump, won by Conover of Columbia by a jump of 5 feet 8 1/4 inches; and the standing broad jump, won by Larkin of Princeton at 10 feet 3 inches, - all three being...