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Yesterday afternoon the '86 and '88 athletic meeting occurred on Holmes Field. A fair-sized audience was present and witnessed a very good exhibition in many of the events. The entries were few, but the records made in most of the events were very credit able. The record was broken in the two-mile bicycle race, and in putting the shot...
...MILE BICYCLE RACE.Dean, '88, was the only entry. He broke the Harvard record, making the two miles in 6m. 39 4 5s. The record before this...
...another column we publish an editorial taken from the Record commenting on the action of the faculty in deciding that the oration shall be delivered in Latin. It sounds as if it had been taken from some faculty report of half a century ago. Yet we think that the Record is more conservative than even its surroundings warrant. Its sister, the Courant, is far ahead of it in its judgment on subjects which are now agitating the college world. In speaking of the success of the partially elective system at Yale, the Courent thus says: "Our ideal culminates...
Compare with this the following extract from the Record: "There is a spirit evincing itself in the first two years of our life here, which, however much it may be deplored in its more disorderly manifestations, is yet one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful agent, in forming and strengthening athletic interests at Yale. In class feelings, class distinctions, class rivalries, lies, we believe, the true source of our success. If we introduce the elective system, class lines, nay, we may say, the classes themselves must soon disappear. If we destroy class lines we destroy class feeling...
...base-ball, or in anything, we must sacrifice the benefits of an elective system like ours, let us never contend for that much coveted prize. This is, we think, the weakest argument that has ever been advanced against the elective system. But we are glad to see that the Record has not the support of the other papers of the college...