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...breaking the long series of defeats which in past years has clouded the reputation of cricket at Harvard as an intercollegiate sport. Since the cricketers of Haverford proved not invincible, Harvard may look forward to her second championship match with increased confidence, and hope to alter the record of previous years against the University of Pennsylvania. If Harvard should be compelled to withdraw from the intercollegiate cricket league next year, it will be especially satisfactory to leave after the best record since their membership...
Ellis, '90, won the hundred yards dash in eleven seconds. Gates, '93, won second place after a hard race with Reed. In the running broad jump Bloss, '90, distinguished himself by jumping 20 ft. 10.5 in., beating his last year's record by six and a half inches. Sayre, '92, second, jumped 17 ft. 8.5 in. Three men came to the scratch in the mile run. The first quarter was run in 1 minute, 16 seconds, the men all bunched; in the third quarter Strong, '92, was well in the lead and flnished the mlle in 5 minutes, 13.5 seconds...
...trophy, consisting of an oxidized silver baseball, has been offered to the member of the Yale nine who makes the best record in base running...
...Harvard University Bulletin for May has just been issued, and in it is to be found a record of the acts of the corporation, and a list of the books added to the library during the past three months. Among the acts of the corporation are to be noticed the following: The grateful acceptance of $5,000 from Nathaniel C. Nash, as the first instalment of his gift for the botanical lecture-room: the establishment of the "George B. Sohier Prize" of $250 a year for the best thesis presented by a successful candidate for honors in English...
With seven men rowing for the last two miles Yale got over the course in 20 minutes and 17 seconds. This time is very fast under any conditions with eight men. The record for Yale crews over the New Haven course is something like 20 min. 9 sec. Atalanta rowed much the same kind of a race against Yale as Bradford rowed against Harvard last year for a shorter distance. At the half mile they were two-thirds of a length ahead, rowing 33 a minute to 31 for Yale. At the mile point there was clear water between...