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...active interest taken in base-ball this year is something remarkable and unexpected. The class ball games, which have been rather a failure of late years, were given up this spring, and their place has been supplied in a somewhat novel way. The Consolidated nine was formed with the idea of giving practice to the University and Freshman nines. The success which has attended it has led to the formation of another organization on a similar basis, under the name of the "Reserve" nine. The scheme is now being considered of forming a league, consisting of the Consolidated, the Reserves...
Considerable interest has been taken in a device invented by Irving Fisher, '88, for registering the strokes of oarsmen. A roll of paper is slightly unwound at each stroke. A pencil moves across it, and its varying motion corresponds to the varying strength of pull. The result of the paper movement and the pencil movement is a curve which faithfully reproduces the length, strength and peculiarities in each stroke...
...meeting of the Athletic Association was well conducted but lacked interest as many of the events were not closely or well contested. The first game of lacrosse in the championship series gave fresh evidence that in this branch of sports too, Harvard intends to stand second to none. The large crowd that attended the game was well rewarded for coming...
...Post, May 12th.]The little Record is in a sad state of mind because it finds that the DAILY CRIMSON, a small sheet published at Harvard University, is mainly devoted to news about sports. Why should it not be? The CRIMSON is not conducted by the faculty in the interest of classics and sciences, and it aims at nothing higher than supplying items which relate to those outside interests and recreations which healthy young men everywhere ought to take part in during their leisure hours. To expect the CRIMSON to occupy the literary field of the "Advocate" and the "Harvard...
...competition for the prizes was of such a nature that intense interest was manifested by the audience in the award. The gentlemen who acted as judges were Editor Hooper, Col. C. R. Codman, Mr. Roger Wolcott, Mr. Geo. Putnam, Prof. J. W. White, Rev. G. H. Hall, Rev. W. Lawrence, Prof. J. B. Thayer. The award, which was made as stated above, was, while somewhat of a surprise to the admirers of the more finished style of declamation, certainly to have been expected by those who watched the effect made by the speakers upon their audience. It has now certainly...