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...first honors. It is very unfair for the Yale journals to assume that, because the wearers of the blue won from Princeton, they would have won from Harvard as readily, or more so. What Yale tries to make out by no means follows. It will go on record that the Yale team was enabled to win the championship of 1888 by forfeit, the Harvard faculty refusing to allow the eleven to play at New York, and the Yale management refusing to allow its players to go elsewhere. It has always been supposed that a standard of sportsmanship exists among...
...took place Saturday. The distance is one and one-sixth miles. There were four starters, Davis '91 at the scratch, and the others with handicaps of from fifty to two hundred yards. Davis easily passed the other men and won in 3 minutes 19.3 seconds, beating the previous record. Immediately after the race Davis and Cornish made the same distance on a tandem safety in 3 minutes and 23 seconds, which is also a new record...
...colleges can boast a prouder record or more eminent alumni than the old University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, a fact which he thought worthy to be chronicled, in writing his own epitaph, beside the immortal fact of his having been the author of the Declaration of Independence. The fact that he was twice President of the United States Jefferson thought less worthy of record. Although prostrated by the war, the university has since that time received over $700,000 in legacies and gifts, exclusive of its fixed endowments. It has no President but its affairs are administered...
...BRIGHTON. N. Y., Nov. 17, 1888. C. J. Queckberner of the Staten Island Athletic Club broke nearly all records of hammer throwing at the club grounds at West Brighton on Saturday. He had six trial throws in each event. The first was a 12 pound hammer, handle 3 ft. 6in. The best throw was in the six trial, when he sent the hammer 116 ft. 4 in., beating all amateur and professional records. The next trial was with a 16 pound hammer, handle 3 ft. 6 in. He failed to break the record, 99 ft. 7 in., in the first...
...condition of the negro in the South is improving:- Cong. Record...