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...mile bicycle race G. D. Pratt of Amherst reduced the record from 6 m. 51 sec., to 6 m. 22 4-5 sec. N. D. Alexander of Amherst broke the record for putting the shot with a distance of 38 ft. 3 1-2 inches. N. T. Abbott, a lame athlete from Dartmouth, won the running high jump with the bar at a height of 5 ft. 9 in., thus breaking the record by half an inch...
...critic's view is very different from that of a moralist. Byron's power was in his personality. He was born into an evil inheritance. His father was Mad Jack of the Guards. His mother, a lioness of a woman, was deserted by her husband, and left with her "lame brat." She was the worst kind of woman to bring up such a child. He succeeded his father as Lord Byron in his eleventh year. In 1803 he met the Mary of his poems, whose marriage with another later saddened his life but inspired his genius...
...McKay has not as yet shown up very promisingly. Frost has never rowed before and it is too early to tell yet what he can do. Ganson is one of the ten strongest men in college but is not altogether in perfect form and is suffering severely from a lame shoulder received at foot ball. Johnson who has been rowing regularly till within a few days when he was taken seriously ill, is very heavy and strong and when he is able to get out again will prove a valuable addition to the boat. Walcott is an old oar having...
...backs fumbled badly, both kicks and ordinary passes, and utterly failed to back each other up. Wrenn at quarterback did not put enough life into his men though he ran the team with good judgment. Whitman at full-back was suffering with a very lame leg and in that account could do very little kicking. The other backs made a few good individual rushes; but when Boston Latin had the ball, they failed to help in the defensive work...
Harvard formed a wedge and Lake got five yards behind it. Wallis tackled him and in so doing bruised his lame leg again. After some vigorous rubbing he took his place in the line again. Corbett started to run but dropped the ball. A bluestocking made a dash at it but only knocked it towards his own goal. Then Newell made a dive and the ball was Harvard's with a gain of ten yards...