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...hurdle-races before the last meeting were over seven hurdles. On Saturday last ten hurdles were used. In the spring the time was 22 seconds, and in the fall, 20 1/4 seconds...
...others met a Nine from Brown; these latter being favored - for that occasion only, we trust - with the kind services of Messrs. Tyng and Thatcher. The odds against the Harvard men were, naturally, enormous; and the game terminated in our defeat by a score of eight to seven. The second innings was marked by a fine double play by Ernst, and in the following innings a splendid hit by Thayer gave three runs. In the fifth, a double out was made by Ernst, who obstinately insisted on catching a fly regardless of the earnest advice of his friends to drop...
...another, naming the length of the session for 1875, the departments of instruction, and the instructors and lecturers engaged. Before the issue of the April circular, containing notice of the School's attempt at self-support, there had been one hundred and sixty applications; this number immediately fell to seven paying applicants. A guaranty fund of $3,000 had been raised, but this still left a probable deficit of $3,000; and a minimum of thirty paying scholars was needed. This last failure to secure funds for the School occasioned a final circular from Mr. Agassiz, the Director...
...following will be the programme of events: 1. One-mile run. 2. One-mile walk. 3. Three-mile run. 4. Seven-mile walk. 5. One-half-mile run. 6. Three-mile walk. 7. One-hundred-yard dash. 8. Three-mile run. 9. One-hundred-twenty-yard hurdle. 10. Seven-mile walk. Numbers 3 and 10 are open only to graduates...
...seems to us that the managers of the clubs could easily afford to give an additional number of singles and doubles to the clubs next year. At present, the average is about two seats for every seven men, or for $ 105, -about $52 yearly for each seat. As the first cost of the boats can scarcely have exceeded this, -and it is reported that the receipts have exceeded the expenses this year, -all the receipts next year, after deducting care of boats, repairs, interest on mortgage, etc., will be clear profit...