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...chroniclers have left one terrible night in India indelibly stamped upon the world's memory. It was that night in June 1756, when 123 prisoners, many of them British soldiers, died of suffocation in "the black hole of Calcutta," a lockup in Fort William, 18 ft. long by 15ft. wide-an outrage for which the Nawab Sirajud-daula was later put to death by Clive of India...
...Morison explains, were in most cases only half-trained. When it came to combat, nine out of ten were utter greenhorns. With huge fleets committed far from home, heavy weather on D-day might have been fatal. The weather was in fact generally calm and clear, although high seas (15ft. surf) had swept the Moroccan coast almost until the morning of the landings...
...final event, putting the 56lb weight for height, was won by J. S. Mitchell, N J A C, who established a world's record by hitting the board at 15ft...
PUTTING THE SHOT.J. S. Cruger, '81, 33ft. 10in., May 23, 1879; C. H. Kipp, '82, 34ft., May 24, 1881; C. H. Kip, '83, 35ft., 5 1-2in., May 20, 1882; C. H. Kip, '83, 35ft., 11in., May 27, 1882. RUNNING BROAD JUMP.J. B. Keys, '77, 15ft., 8 1-2 in. Oct. 24, 1874; J. T. Linzee. '77, 18ft. 4in., June 9, 1876; A. C. Denniston, '83, 18ft., 8in., Nov. 1, 1879; F. H. Thompson, '82, 20ft., 1 1-4in., May 22, 1880; W. Soren, '83, 20ft., 10in...
...obstruction on principal ball field, 420ft.; same, second field, 350ft. Cricket field, 400ft. square. Grade of ball field, 3 1-4 in. to 100ft. Length of driveway, 4,000ft. Length straightaway on running track, 372.5ft.; radius inside curve, 90ft.; width of homestretch, 20ft.; width of rest of track, 15ft.; depth of material, 15in., in six layers, and beaded inside and outside with tarred spruce and hemlock 6in.x1in. Length of fencing, 2,762ft.; length of water pipe, 1,580ft.; line of field, 3 dig. west of north. Money spent (approximately): Original purchase, $21,000; expenditure, $13,000. Total...