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...unable to understand what their relative positions at this point in the race has to do with the order in which they crossed the finish line. But if this picture had been taken at the instant the winner breasted the tape, it would have been impossible to learn from it who had won. The instrument stood on the bank at the extreme outside edge of the path. about 25 yards from the finish, and the view obtained was from the rear of the runners. Nearest to the camera was the rearmost man, either Horr of Cornell, or Lund of Harvard...
...college will regret to learn of the sale of Hamilton Park to parties who will probably cut it up into building lots. The park comprises fifty-one acres, and for the past twenty years has served the college as a general athletic field. Several years ago efforts were made to buy it for the college, but the owners were foolish enough to demand an unreasonably large price, which, of course, the college was unwilling to pay, although it would have made a far more desirable athletic field than the one we now have. - Yale News...
...learn from the Yale Record that their athletes in the Mott Haven games were virtually first but nominally second in the contest through a deplorable failure of sight on the part of some of the disinterested judges...
...opportunity offered to men only, if the word college shall be allowed to stand as significant to the male gender only, if girls because they are girls, are to be forbidden privileges which are rights of their brothers then the action of Columbia was ill-advised. But if to learn applies with equal significance to all, if colleges are to be considered as common benefits open to either sex, if a bright, intelligent girl is to be allowed the privileges which are forced upon her, too often, stupid brother, then the action of Columbia College is significant as a step...
...Yale News comments severely upon our statement made some time ago that the Yale-Harvard freshman game played here this spring was the "fence" game. As far as we can learn from the highest authorities at Yale, "fence" games are games that Yale wins, while all games that are lost by that college, are "no-fence games." We hope that now we are on the right track, and that we will hereafter make no mistakes in regard to this much contested subject...