Word: placing
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...115th Commencement of the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania took place at the Academy of Music, in Philadelphia, on Monday last...
...Oxford-Cambridge race takes place to-morrow at 7.45 A.M. The last English papers state that the betting, which had been 10 to 7 in favor of the latter, is now even, owing to the changes in the Cambridge crew...
...many years it has been a cause of surprise, if not of regret, to those interested in Harvard, that all attempts to organize a debating society worthy of the place which Harvard holds among American colleges have proved futile. Educated persons are expressing more and more frequently the opinion that the educated should take more interest in the political affairs of the country, and that by their influence and example the tone of our representatives should be raised. It seems most fitting that some elementary training in these matters should come from the University, in the shape of an organization...
Harvard was represented in the Standing High Jump by Mr. F. B. Keene, '80, who won the prize very handily from five competitors, and succeeded in placing a record of 4 ft. 9 in. to his credit, thus just equalling Coolidge's excellent performance of Saturday afternoon last, which is mentioned in another column. Edmands, of the Union Club, was second, with a record of 4 ft. 8 in. In the Running High Jump, R. Sturgis, '81, competed, and, after a very pretty contest, secured second place, with a record of 5 ft. 5 in.; Edmands, of the Unions, clearing...
...been suggested that the four rooms in the top of Weld, which are situated in the part which has the large W, could be made much more pleasant if a window were put through in the place of the W. It would not destroy the beauty of the front; and the W might be put a little higher up. These rooms have very little light as they are now, as there are only two windows, one north, and the other south...