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Harvard's success in the B. A. A. games Saturday evening was unparalleled. All her representatives did excellent work, and the college is proud of their record. The fortunate issue of the sports is all the more well welcome because it is deserved. We expected Harvard to win; and her success was but the natural outcome of two important factors. First, the men worked from the start with energy and purpose. Second, they had the benefit of the wisest and carefullest training possible. The college does not always appreciate how much of our success in track and gymnasium athletics...
...Johnson, the champion amateur 100 yard swimmer of America, broke the world's record for 100 feet in the M. A. C. swimming tank, Wednesday night, covering the distance in 20 seconds...
...cent. of the graduates took such degrees. But of late classes have not shown such brilliant scholarship. The class of '88 graduated 42 per cent. with distinction, '89 graduated but 39 per cent., and '90 graduated 42 per cent. The class of 1884 made the following brilliant record: Out of 195 men 118 took degrees with distinction, 22 of which were summa cum laude, 43 magna cum laude, and 53 cum laude. Compared with this the class of 1890 took the same total number of degrees with distinction, although graduating half as many men again...
...Record.- From '91: number of men 6; philosophical oration 1, high oration 1, oration 1, first colloquy 1, no appointment 2. From '92: number of men 6; philosophical oration 1, first colloquy 1, no appointment...
...have erred let me say, before I submit any "views," that there is no excuse for our defeats. Explanation there may be, but it is not to our credit. My object in quoting the record, "H. 18, Y. 12. was not to "exult," but to shame the men into a realization that we are not wont to take second place, and ought not to be forced to take it through crass stupidity...