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Last Friday, one of the hottest days of the season thus far, witnessed the summer meeting of the Athletic Association on Jarvis Field. A large number of ladies from town honored the athletes with their presence, and that portion of the seats which was reserved for them formed one of the most attractive features of the afternoon, and was a sight well worth the trouble of a much longer walk than that from the Yard to Jarvis Field...
Shortly after three o'clock the bell was struck to warn the contestants in the one-mile running race to get ready, and they shortly afterwards appeared on the field and took their positions on the course in the following order, number one being on the inside: J. Holmes, '79 (1), H. W. Cushing, '77 (2), L. Cushing, '79 (3), C. G. James, '79 (4). On the firing of the pistol they started, and Mr. H. W. Cushing took the lead, followed by Messrs. James, L. Cushing, and Holmes, in the order named. The first quarter was made...
...Class Song of '76 has been set to the music of a German Volk's song by Mr. Livingood. We shall publish it in our Class-Day number...
...indulged in at Oxford can be realized by reading the account in the Undergraduates' Journal of the "Procession of Boats" which passed and saluted the head boat when the races were over. The twenty-one racing-boats were followed on this occasion by twenty-two "Torpid Boats," making the number of "rowing men" on the river three hundred and forty-four. To man our first and second club crews forty men are needed; and certainly forty is a smaller part of the number of undergraduates here, than three hundred and forty is of the whole number at Oxford. The comparison...
...minute; Harvard, the old stroke of 36 to a minute. Whichever wins, we shall probably have a long newspaper discussion, attempting to prove that the stroke of the winning crew is the better stroke. One trial proves nothing. the successful stroke for a number of years will be a more convincing argument...