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Prof. William C. Dole, instructor of the Cornell gymnasium, on New Year's day broke the world's record for a continuous swinging of Indian clubs. He swung the clubs for four hours and fifty minutes. Each club weighted seven pounds, one ounce...
...excellence of the candidates, is certainly very favorable for success, if the men are constant and energetic. There is little need for us to remind eighty-nine of the treatment Harvard freshman nines have received in the past, and we sincerely hope that eighty-nine will break the record. Nothing but hard work will enable a freshman nine to defeat a Yale freshman nine, having in prospect a seat on the far-famed fence...
...Yale Record in the review of its exchanges gives the following complimentary account of Harvard journalism. Speaking of chestnuts it says...
There are six hundred newspapers in the U. S. that bear the name of "News." - Yale News. The remainder of this clipping from Puck was omitted, viz: They all go to prove what Shakespeare insinuated, that there is nothing in the name. - Record...
...still the fact that they confine their powers almost entirely to college games and seldom enter open amateur competitions, detracts considerably from their importance as representatives of athletics in this country. * * * What a splendid list of high jumpers we have now. Page, little, wiry, cat-like Page, hit the record such a crack this year as to send it up to 6.00 1-4. * * * Then Reinhart stands at 5.10 1-4; Atkinson, 5.9 3-4; Richards, 5-9 1-4; Whitehorn, 5.8 1-4, etc. If Reinhart really settled down to business and stopped smoking, he could beat the record...