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There will be handicap competitions in the broad jump, high jump, pole-vault, 16-pound shot-put, and 16-pound hammer-throw this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The four first mentioned events will take place in the baseball cage and the hammer-throw will be from a wooden platform on Soldiers Field. A medal will be awarded to the winner of first place in each event. Additional entries will be taken at the cage this afternoon until the beginning of the competition. Coach Quinn, Captain Rand, H. E. Harwood '10, L. Little '10 and A. Wheeler '11 will...
...done on the summit of the mound. Here a great Roman stair 80 feet in width was discovered in June. At the top of the stairway is a large paved area flanked by massive walls, on which were found the inverted bases of four columns. Beyond the paved platform, there are probably the remains of a temple. To the west of the stairway a chamber 20 by 40 feet in size was found partly cut in the rock. A large pit in the floor was not explored because of lack of time. At the foot of the stairway the trunk...
...song was by no means the only feature of last night's mass meeting. It was one of the biggest gatherings in the Union on record and there were scores of men who could not even get close enough to the doorways to see the platform. Everyone seemed charged not only with the ordinary enthusiasm of the last week of the season, but in addition with several pounds left over from Saturday's victory. It must have been gratifying to Captain Burr and his team to feel that such unstinted loyalty was being bestowed upon them. Another chance...
...became a Democrat, like the majority of Harvard graduates of that time; but not long after, like many other of these same men, he became a Republican. There were two reasons for his becoming a Democrat: the political economy then taught in College favored free trade, and the Democratic platform was "mathematically correct." Later he realized that idealism enters politics as everything else, and that mere mathematical precision is not practical. Among other arguments for a protective tariff he argued that a country should be self-supporting...
...Parker discussed the three chief points of the Democratic platform: tariff reform, the guarantee bank deposit, and the legislative control of our courts. He claimed that the first would be changed, as soon as a sufficient need had arisen, by the same party that had instituted it. To force all depositors to pay tithes was an obvious injustice. As for the third contention, any such legislation as Mr. Bryan desired showed a suspicion and doubt on the part of the people, of the integrity of the United States courts. Such a suspicion would be of the greatest injury...