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...Fogg '85, will enter for the "Running High Kick" at the Technology games, and attempt to break the amateur "Hitch and Kick" record, 8 feet 5 inches...
...with an orifice on the curved side for the hand; these they threw behind them when in mid-air, and this gave them additional impetus. By the aid of these weights tremendous distances were covered; for instance, Herodotus tells a little story of a certain Greek who had a record of fifty-five feet; and this statement is probably true, for they loosened the ground to a distance of fifty feet, so that they must have expected them to jump that far. After the leaping came the javelin throwing, in which the object was distance, not accuracy in hitting...
...discus throwing, the Greeks had a record of ninety-five feet, but the weight of the discus which was used is not known. A year or two ago, discus throwing was introduced at Harvard, and Kip, '83, threw 80 feet, with a discus made of oak, weighted with lead, weighing four pounds...
...Class Glee Clubs, and Yale, with a second Glee Club and a Freshman club to draw from, will soon be able to compete on equal terms in another grand contest for the championship, which will have the advantage that no blood will be shed, although we presume the Record and the Princetonian would never acknowledge which side was beaten. Some permanent arrangement for musical instruction will probably be made, if these first attempts meet with the success which they most certainly deserve...
...faculty seemed particularly reticent about disclosing anything in connection with their meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the result of the discussion which took place then has leaked out. After a protracted debate on the subject of voluntary prayers, the board decided by their vote to put themselves on record as favorable to the plea made in the recent petition presented by the students. This is another step in the right direction, if the wishes of the majority of students are to be consulted. The overseers and corporation are the persons who have the power to say whether such things as voluntary...