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...HARSH comment was made on the Princeton-Harvard game last Saturday by the man who said that the Harvard team seemed to think there were not enough spectators on the benches, so they stopped playing to watch the game...
...Harvard was beaten by Cornell, both Freshman and University, in 1875 and 1876, and in the Fresh man match of 1878. But her present crew has never been beaten. They defeated Yale and Columbia in 1877, and Yale in 1878, and are acknowledged by all judges of rowing to be one of the best collegiate crews ever seen in America. The history of the crew is unparalleled in the annals of University oarsmen. Bancroft rowed in the Freshman crew of 1875, Bancroft and Jacobs in the University crew of 1876 and in the match with Yale; seven of the eight...
...Yale Courant does well to call its full-page picture College Riff-Raff. For surely, the two collegiates represented are riff-raff, the man who was so familiar with such specimens as to be able to portray them must be riff-raff, and the editor who accepted the cartoon, riff-raff also...
...fastest English amateur time 50 2/5 sec., and the fastest American amateur time 52 1/5 sec. This latter was made July 4, 1878, on the best track in America, warm day, no wind, and in a race between the fastest two men we have at this distance, the second man being but 1/5 second behind. Neither of these men could, last Saturday, on an eighth of a mile track, with cold weather and raw wind, have beaten 53 1/2 sec.; and if they had been in this handicap, at scratch, would certainly have been beaten 5 1/2 or 6 seconds...
...editor of this column will give a cup, valued at $25, to any man who will run one mile in 4 min. 50 sec. or better, or who will walk one mile in 7 min. 40 sec. or better, or to any man who can beat the best time on record in this college for a run of three miles. These offers to remain open until the end of next June. Any man intending to make one of these trials to give ten days' notice to the Vice-President of the H. A. A. These offers are made solely...