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...limit of ten minutes and is open to all amateurs. The course will be over macadamized roads for twelve and one half miles straightaway, and return by same route, which makes it impossible for strangers to lose their course. The prizes will be ten in number, besides a gold record medal which will be given to the first competitor who breaks the Twenty-five Mile Road Record...
...Canadian championship games were held at Montreal Saturday afternoon. Harvard was represented by W. C. Downs, '90. He won the half-mile run, making 1.59 3-8 as his time, and breaking the former Canadian record of 1.59 7-8, held by Moffit. The quarter-mile run which was held only a few minutes after the half-mile, Downs also won second place. The prize for the half-mile was a large gold medal, and that for the second place in the quarter was a silver...
...remind '93 that as yet only one member has earned an election to the CRIMSON board. This is a poor record, compared to that of '91 and '92. A class which has distinguished itself in athletics should be ambitious of giving equally good support to the college papers; and this '93 has failed to do. We hope to see the class redeem itself, and to receive within the next few months enough contributions of satisfactory quality to enable us to fill several of the present vacancies...
This morning Harvard University begins the two hundred and fifty-fifth year of its existence. With a glorious record behind it and every prospect of material prosperity ahead the outlook is encouraging in the extreme. Today it will incorporate as a constituent part of itself the largest number of men ever gathered together in one class, who for the next four years will share its fortunes, and rejoice at its successes, both academic and athletic. The freshman class, which today finds the college a novelty and a curiosity, will, as its predecessors always have done, soon experience that affection which...
Arrangements have been made for a straight-away quarter mile match race between W. C. Downs of Harvard and W. C. Dohm of Princeton. The direct object of the race is to attempt to break the world's record of 47 3-4 secnow held by Wendell Baker '86. The place of the race is not yet determined, but it will take place either at Beacon Park or Mystic Park or some other straight-away course. Detailed arrangements will be made by the N. Y. A. C., who will offer a prize for the winner...