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...annual spring out-door meeting of the Harvard Athletic Association took place yesterday afternoon on Holmes Field, on a slow track, in half a drizzle. The records made were slow in the sprints, good in the distance runs, and exceptionally good in the hammer and shot events. Far and away the best performance of the day, however, was the two mile bicycle race, in which the record was lowered from five minutes, 46 1-5 seconds, to 5 minutes, 38 4-5 seconds...
...Sheldon, holder of the World's record for the standing high jump, enters Yale next fall...
...University games will begin at 3 o'clock Friday. There are no events open to competitors from other colleges. At present it is rather risky to hazard any prediction as to the results of the various events, but it is safe to say that the record in the two mile bicycle race will be lowered. Great interest is manifested as to the outcome of the quarter mile, for which race five evenly matched contestants have entered. In fact all the events bid fair to be highly exciting and the meeting will undoubtedly be a very successful one in every...
...practically the beginning of the important part of the season. The games which have been played with the other colleges, though they may have been harder games to win, sometimes even to lose, do not really hold the same place in the minds of the college or in the record of the base ball season as the games with Yale and Princeton. There is something in the traditions of three other larger colleges which binds them together within boundaries which the smaller colleges cannot pass. These bounds have this year been strengthened by firm, mutuai friendship...
...expenses of the U. S. are already very great. (d) Thus a part of the advantages resulting from our isolation would be forfeited. Century Magazine, April, 1889, vol. 37. (e) Money could be better spent in other ways. (1) in building a merchant marine. (2) subsidising steamships, Cong. Record...