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...Sixteen of the Leland Stanford Jr. Faculty are graduates of Cornell...
...winning the greatest number of points on the basis of actual performance. The new method of computing points was used. The amateur record in each event making a standard of 100 points. There were seven competitors and the events were the running high jump, putting the sixteen pound shot, and the standing hop, step and jump. Shead won the first event, putting the shot 31 feet. He was handicapped 3 ft. 6 in. Hyler got second place his handicap being 3 ft. 6 in. Shead made 67 points and Hyler 64. Bloss won the hop step and jump, covering...
...eleven has lost but one game out of sixteen this year...
...divided into two squads, one made up of the heavier candidates, the other of the lighter men. There are about sixteen men or two crews in each squad. Kales and Mumford have been stroking the heavier crews and Stewart is stroke of the third crew. The positions are by no means fixed. Kales and Mumford were appointed simply because they have had a little previous experience. It is rather remarkable that the lightest men learn much more rapidly than the heavy ones...
...down through the brick yards, up towards Tufts College, thence around the Powder House up to the Cambridge water tower. Half way down the hill a profusion of paper signified the break. The men lined up and raced to the gymnasium, J. O. Nichols L. S. finishing first just sixteen minutes after the hares who escaped being caught by four minutes. A. Blake '93 was second with F. S. Hinckley '95 third. The distance of the run was about seven miles and any difficulties in following the trail were probably due to the fact that the many small boys along...