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...Reed's next statement is that the Polo Grounds' track is wide enough to start two rows of riders without mishap. Though last year a fall occurred from bad starting, yet the danger is more in the number of riders at one time on the track than the number starting. Besides the starters rarely know their business and dangerous falls are sure to occur if the number of starters is large. Mr. Reed mentions that there is a rule which provides that the race be started again if the starters fall within 10 yards of the start. This rule...
...enemy a cavalry raid to the east and rear of the city was carried out successfully by Colonel Ryerson, while Sherman and his corps watched the works just above Vicksburg. Grant moved the rest of his army to the west side of the river and making a wide circuit came out on the river again several miles below. The fleet ran by the city in the night time and joined the army. Grand Gulf now stood directly in Grant's path across the river. By a flank movement he caused the Confederates to evacuate it and to retire towards Vicksburg...
...which crowns the hill on whose slope the town is built. The few who know that it is an university town, by noticing the different colored caps of the students in the streets, seldom visit the buildings, and leave the town without seeing a university whose fame is world-wide...
...army had now taken position in a wide semi-circle outside of this ridge, stationed largely on a parallel ridge called Seminary Ridge. His army was impatient, and Lee determined to attack. Longstreet drove in an advanced angle of the Federal line near Round Top, and almost gained that important hillock. On the other end of the line Ewell and Johnson made an attack near Culps, and at evening the latter general was on that eminence. A portion of the Federal line near the centre had also been broken through for a time. This condition of affairs much encouraged...
...seems to us that in college athletics as in graver matters in life, the degree of excellence attained and the resulting benefit to the participants both depend largely on the stimulus afforded by wide opportunity for competition. We think it very undesirable to limit in any way, not entirely necessary, the scope of inter-collegiate contests in athletics, and, while approving of proper restrictions, earnestly deprecate the narrowing of the field which would result from the adoption of such a resolution by a comparatively small number of colleges. In consideration of the widely differing conditions of American colleges, absolute equality...