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...notable performances at the B. A. A. games Saturday night were those of M. F. Sweeney, X. A. C., in the high jump, and Bernard Doherty, D. A. C., in the three standing jumps. Sweeney broke his own in-door record by clearing 6 ft. 3 3-8 in., and Doherty established a new world's record in his event...
Although nothing in the way of record breaking was done by the Harvard men, the H. A. A. scored many more points than any other organization. The fact that in the track events only one scratch man secured a place, would indicate that the handicaps given were almost too liberal...
...announcement that the Athletic Committee has not confirmed the reelection of Mr. Waters as captain of the eleven will probably not cause much surprise, considering the fact that the committee put itself on record a few weeks ago as against the principle of graduate captains. It was stated in the plainest way, when this announcement was made, that in the opinion of the committee, the best interests of Harvard athletics demanded that the captaincy of the teams be confined to undergraduates. An exception was made in the case of baseball for the perfectly obvious reason that there was no undergraduate...
...Harvard men in this race averaged 51 2-5 sec., and the time for the mile, 3 min. 25 2-5 sec., established a record for the event. If the men had been drawn out it is probable that this time would have been bettered by at least 1 1-2 sec., as Sayer, alone, ran a full second under his time of the Saturday before...
Eight papers are issued fortnightly. The Yale Courant is composed of twelve pages of fiction and verse. The Yale Record is a humorous publication of about none pages. The Red and Blue, published at the University of Pennsylvania, is a fourteen page literary paper. The Columbia Spectator has some seventeen pages of news, fiction and humor. The Bowdoin students publish the Orient, a literary magazine and newspaper of fourteen pages. The Dartmouth contains fourteen pages of college news, edited from the senior class. The Wesleyan Argus has about twelve pages divided into fiction and news, and is edited by members...