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...seventh annual championship meeting of the New England Interscholastic Athletic Association was held yesterday afternoon on Holmes Field. The weather was as nearly perfect as could be desired, and the track was in the best of condition. Four records were broken, a new record was established, and nearly all of the events were closely contested. The audience was quite large, numbering over 800, and was very patient whenever any waits occured. On the whole the meeting was conducted with great dispatch, the last event being finished by five o'clock. Thirteen schools succeed in winning a place, and the point...
...four records broken were in the one mile bicycle race, putting the shot, throwing the hammer, and in the pole vault. B. Hurd, Jr., B. H. S., equalled the record made by himself last year in the 120 yards hurdle race, while a record was established for the 220 yards hurdle race...
Only four men started in the 120 yards hurdle race. B. Hurd, Jr., B. H. S., won again without any trouble, in 18 seconds, equalling his own record of last year. H. E. Field, W. H. S., and R. H. Stephenson ran a dead heat, and in the run-off Stephenson won in 18 4-5 seconds, in a very pretty race...
...current Harper's Weekly Caspar W. Whitney says in reference to to the batting of the Harvard team "no college nine in my recollection, or of which I can find any record, has ever equalled it." He also says in speaking of the Princeton game: "There was one extremely pleasant feature of the Harvard-Princeton game, and that was the cheering by Harvard men of Princeton's clever plays, and the total absence of hooting her poor plays. This was in marked contrast to the attempts to rattle Highlands at Princeton. It was amateur base ball; it was gentlemanly...
...Besides these only two or three dozen are likely to march, most of whom will be from the graduating class of the Law School. This class has voted not to wear the cap and gown. If the members of the class felt that they wished to put themselves on record against the innovation adopted by the college seniors, the University, we are very sure, feels glad to have them express their opinion in the way they have; and it was simply with this wish to put their sentiments on record that a large number of the class voted...