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...generally known that Georges' time for the mile in his last race with Snook, 4.26 1-4, was made on a grass track. On this sort of a track we believe this time is the fastest on record...
...five-mile professional bicycle championship of England was won by R. Howell; time, 14.28, thus beating the record...
...first information that we have of his presence here is from the records of his admission as an inhabitant of Charlestown on the 1st of August, 1637, where he was sometimes "minister of God's Word." He was called the Reverend in New England and was known as a preacher, but as to whether he had been ordained in England or not we are in ignorance. There is no record moreover of his ordination as a dissenter either there or here. In a little less than a year after his arrival in America, he died of consumption, leaving...
George M. Hendee, the bicycle champion, will ride a 10 mile race with A. H. Robinson of England next Saturday. Mr. Hendee proposes to break, if he can, the 10 miles record, 31 m. 22 1-2s., made by Burnham at New Haven...
...Record in speaking of the Princetonian affair says: The attitude of the Princeton faculty toward the students is in many respects in marked contrast to that of the Harvard and Yale faculties toward the students under their control. Evidently at Princeton there is a great veneration for old customs and traditions, which precludes a just comprehension of more modern ideas. This is evinced in the various actions taken by the faculty in regard to athletics. These consist of aggressive restrictions whose haste and indiscretion has to be repented in almost immediate concessions. But even these so-called concessions are sufficiently...