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...annual Yale spring games were held Tuesday afternoon at New Haven. The weather was threatening and the track was in a very poor condition from the effects of rain. But in spite of this two records were broken. Following are the winners: 100-yards dash, Sherrill, '89, 10 1-4s.; one-mile run, Harmar, '90, 4m. 32 2-5s. (this breaks the intercollegiate record of 4m. 36 4-5s.; 440 yards run, Sherrill, 53s.; 220 yards hurdle, Sweeney, '89. 28 3-5s., breaking Yale record of 29 1-2s.; one mile walk, Platt...
...made, the effects are very lasting, and this is as true of right influences as of wrong ones. Students are too apt to regard academic life as something different from life after graduation-they think that when they leave college they will start on a new career-but the record once made will affect a man throughout his after life. Pessimism, aestheticism dilettanteism, are all modes of looking at life peculiar to the college world...
Although Bell was beaten in the hurdle race at Cedarhurst by Copeland, the amateur champion, he broke his own and the Harvard record, making the distance in 17 1-2 seconds...
Williams College holds the world's amateur record in throwing the base-ball, with a distance of 127 yards, 3 1-2 inches...
...Commission, and favored an extension of the rules; (b) has resisted constant and enormous pressure from office-seekers; (c) owes a duty to his party; (d) neither political party favors reform; (e) he has established a good precedent, and made a return to the spoils system impossible: Civil Service Record...