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Aside from the length and hard pace, however, the run was interesting. At nine minutes of four the hares, A. Blake '93 and J. O. Nichols L. S., started from the gymnasium in the direction of Allston. Five minutes later the hounds started with J. O. Manley '93 as master. The trail led through Allston, up over Corey Hill, beyond to Brookline, round Chestnut Hill reservoir, then on to Jamaica Plain Pond. From there the trail led to Brookline, down Huntington Avenue, through Back Bay Park. where the pace was increased and kept undiminished until the hounds reached the Cambridge...
...meeting of the Cycling Association last evening the road race was brought up for discussion. The race will be 10 miter in length running over Concord Avenue from the gymnasium to Belmont and Arlington and return over the same route. The date fixed is Nov. 26 and all entries should be sent to F. S. Elliot 50 Brattle street. The prizes will be two silver cups and a medal. The race is open to and bicycle riders in the college and should receive hearty support...
...afternoon. notwithstanding the threatening weather. About twenty-five men competed, and but for the rain of the morning, the number would have been much larger. The hares were J. Manley '93 and D. W. Fenton '95. The start was made at 4.10 and a plain trail five miles in length was laid up North Avenue, across the yards to the Episcopal School, down Mt. Auburn street to the water's edge. Here the trail lay across a small arm of the Charles river, thence up Boylston street, by the Cambridge library in a circuitous route ending at the Harvard Observatory...
...hares shall carry paper, cut in pieces about two inches square, in bags sufficient to last the length of the run, and shall lay a plain trail, from start to finish...
...While the Shows went on" is a good piece of work. The interest is well sustained not withstanding the length and unchanging form of the story. "He" as the hero is designated, suggests somehow the great Van Bibber and the sketch in its motive brings to mind "A Walk up the Avenue" by Richard Harding Davis. The verse of the number is neither extensive nor remarkable; the "Song; after the manner of An Old Poet" deserves to be mentioned however...