A lecture on "Recent Architectural and Archaeological Discoveries at Olympia" was delivered in Columbia College by Dr. Alfred Emerson, Fellow of the John Hopkins University. The lecturer described the characteristics of the Olympic games. He said : "Euphidos, after winning in one of the three-mile races, was so elated by his victory that he leaped out of the stadium and ran home to tell the news at Argos. It was sixty-three miles away, and he arrived there the same evening. The best jump of antiquity was one of fifty-three feet, and there can be no mistake in the figures here, for the second-best record given is fifty-two. We have a record in modern times well vouched for, of an English athlete who jumped forty-nine feet."
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