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...sister colleges. In placing this table beside our College Table in the last Crimson, it will be seen that several of our records are lamentably poor, in fact, utterly unworthy of our Association, and we shall look forward to seeing more than one of them bettered at the approaching spring meeting. It may be said, however, in excuse for the poorness of the records at the pole leaping and throwing the hammer, that each of these events has been competed for only once at our meetings, and the men had then made no preparation at all for them; but with...
...editors of the Crimson desire to place in the hands of the Athletic Association a handsome stopwatch, to be awarded at the Spring Meeting under whatever conditions the Association may deem most desirable...
...facts are only presented there without drawing any conclusion, and each reader is left to decide for himself as to which crew is most likely to win the race. At this early date to assert that a certain crew will be successful would be unsafe. The result of the spring races of '79 should be a warning on this point. Then the Junior crew was thought to have an excellent chance; what really happened is still remembered. To place now the present crews in the order of their classes would probably be as accurate as any other arrangement of them...
...glancing over the list of best records at Harvard, it seems extremely probable that, with the inducement offered in the Echo Prize Medal, several of them will be bettered at the approaching Spring Meeting; and as, however wisely the judges may decide, it would be difficult to give a correct decision as to the respective merits of a man who happened to "break" the record in the Mile Run, for example, and one who secured the Running High Jump, it would seem that dissatisfaction is likely to ensue in the awarding of the trophy. The suggestion therefore may not seem...
...Manhattan Athletic Club in New York, is to turn professional, is, we are happy to state, entirely without foundation. Mr. Myers at present holds the American record at 220 yards, 1/4 mile, 8 1/2 miles running, and will doubtless lower them all still further in some of the approaching spring sports...