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...throwing of the hammer was between Kip, '83, and Biddle, '84. Kip won by a throw of 84 feet. The best college record...
Entries for the discus-throwing closed at the post. - The event proved to be of considerable interest, but the throwing generally seemed to be marked by lack of skill and practice. It can evidently be made a very graceful and enjoyable sport. Messrs. Denniston, '83, Kip, '83, Page, '83, Paulin, '83, Follansbee, '85, Leavitt, '82, and Cumming, '82, entered. Kip won by a throw of 82 feet, with Denniston second throwing 69 ft., 6 in. The best Greek record is said to be 90 feet...
Putting the Shot. - Kip won by 35, feet 5 1/2 inches; Biddle second, with 32 feet, 4 inches; Follansbee, 31 feet, 6 inches. Kip's throw is the best Harvard record...
...seems as if the public press would never cease from its attacks on college students. This time it comes from Philadelphia in a newspaper called the Times. "For several years the public has noted with dismay the gradual decay of the ancient safeguards which stringent discipline was supposed to throw about the educational pathway of the young and rising generation," moralizes the Times. "The moral of college government is greatly relaxed, and our venerable eleemosynary and other institutions of learning are fast becoming the theatres of disorder and excess." This paper then makes the rather remarkable statement that "Harvard, Yale...
...track. One or two contestants in these sports revel in a sort of solitary training, and are sure of success from a total absence of competitors. If some of the heavy men would so far sacrifice themselves as to try a few feats daily, or to throw the hammer every afternoon, they would probably discover that this sport is not so difficult as it looks, and, having shaken that coat of "indifference," would raise the college records by livelier competition. Perhaps we may ascribe this neglect to the unavailable manner in which the shot and hammer are stored away...