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...Rogers ran a hundred yards at Beacon Park lately, as timed by three watches, in 10 seconds. This does not stand as a record, however...
...leaving Groton, one's attention is immediately attracted by the huge grand stand on the New London side of the river, which is built directly opposite the finish of the course. As only the end of the race can be seen from the stand, various methods are employed to keep the spectators informed about the progress of races from the very start. In the first place, there is a little telegraph office adjoining, through which a constant communication is kept up between the start and each separate half mile flag, and these messages are posted directly in front...
...Haven to support the nine, seated themselves at three o'clock on the turf near first base on Yale Field, and staid there during the game. The field was surrounded by a mass of carriages full of pretty girls adorned with blue ribbons, and every available bit of standing room in the grand-stand and behind the foullines was occupied. The Yale managers seemed indifferent as to whether the Harvard men should be seated or not; the CRIMSON scorer was refused a seat in the grand-stand, and was forced to sit on the grass; and the whole Harvard delegation...
...desirous that the students forget their indifference for a time and be present in large numbers, that the labor of the men during the winter and spring may be made manifest to the undergraduates before Saturday, when the crew goes to New London. Boating has always been the stand-by of Harvard athletics, and the contests on the water interests the non-collegiate world more than all the other athletic sports put together. Whoever, then, is not able to see the races, should be on hand this afternoon, that the Harvard crew of '36 may not be as unknown...
...class day, especially of class-day night, have been the source of attraction of a large part of the most disreputable element of Cambridge and Boston. The trouble originates with members of the college, and not outside. A large fence is erected at much cost, and policemen in uniform stand at the entrances to exclude the unauthorized from entering. It is the members of the college who are responsible for what follows. Many heedless men give away class-day tickets as convenient fees to their waiters, or their barber, or their goody. These people throng the yard and pass...