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...Jordan, of the English High, F. W. Colburn, of Lowell, W. W. Cryder, of New York, and F. S. Newell, Roxbury Latin School, were nominated for vice-president. The vote was: Newell, 91; Jordan, 20; Colburn, 2; Cryder, 57. Mr. Newell was declared elected...
Page, the U. of P. jumper, was going with the team, but was compelled to give it up. Jordan, the present holder of the 120-yards hurdle championship, and Smith, the exchampion half-mile runner, will sail next Saturday to join the team...
...trials of the 120 hurdle Berger of Yale was beaten by A. A. Jordan. Bell of Harvard was beaten by Copeland, who holds the American championship in this race. The final was won by Jordan...
...George A. Gordon delivered a very earnest discourse in the chapel last evening from the text found in the 32nd chapser of Genesis: "For with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two companies." The speaker described the advancement that had taken place in the fortunes of Jacob in the twenty years of his absence from home. He had become very wealthy and had grown in experience and in wisdom. This incident from the Old Testament leads to the thought of the attributes of material and moral progress in the lives of Christians...
...Harvard can, however, be illustrated by a single group of facts. The measurements of each student are compiled into a resulting "total strength," which in the case of the man showing the best development among the students of 1880, was indicated by 675.2. This man was F. D. Jordan. The average total strength of the ten best men in that year was 665.2. In 1881, C. H. W. Foster, the highest on the list, gave a total strength of 801.9, the average for the first ten being 676.9. In 1882, C. P. Curtis showed a total strength of 1085.6., while...