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...recent sports at West Point two contestants are said to have made twelve feet in the pole vault. The jumping had to be stopped at this point on account of the height of the building...
...recent number of the New York Herald contains an article on the Columbia crews which gives a very fair idea of what the oarsmen of that college are doing...
...loss by the recent fire in the new building of the Harvard Medical School has been adjusted by the insurance companies at $20,000, and the work of repairing the damage done will be pressed forward as rapidly as possible. The building will probably not be ready for occupancy before October, and as that month will mark the one hundreth anniversary of the appointment of the first instructor in medicine at Harvard, it is suggested that would be a happy coincidence if the centennial anniversary could be celebrated by the dedication of the new building...
...defeat is not popular. Like the Spartan mother, we say, 'return with your shield or on it.' " Yes, Yale is the wrong place for the unsuccessful man. This was proved by the fact that "the smallest man in college" was picked out to bear the blame of her recent defeat at New London and was obliged to give up his studies at that seat of learning "because they made it too hot for him." But, fortunately for Harvard, such sentiments do not prevail here. No man has ever been obliged to leave Cambridge because his athletic record...
...recent number of the Transcript contains a letter from Oxford which gives many interesting particulars of life at an English university...