Word: across
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wolf Hunt" is an exciting story of a winter's adventure by T. Bolton. "The Jersey City Athletic Club," by C. L. Meyers, is illustrated with some instantaneous photographs of men jumping. Part III of "Outdoor Life of the Presidents" deals with Andrew Jackson. The other articles are "Sleighing," "Across Wyoming on Horseback," "Herne the Hunter," "Memories of Yacht Cruisers," "On Blades of Steel," and "On a Canadian Farm in Midwinter...
...into the tank this morning and will be ready for use as soon as the water is let in. As the supply pipe is small, it may take a day or two to fill the tank. The wooden partitions have been fixed in place by iron rods running entirely across the tank, and all other work of construction has been completed. The barge which will be used is that of the '76 crew, the first ever used at Harvard...
...announced that the N. A. A. A. A. will send a team of champion athletes across the ocean to contest against the athletes of England, Ireland and the continent. Letters have already been received from prominent English and Irish clubs asking the team to take part in games to be organized specially for it. To select members of the team, a series of games will be held at the grounds of the Manhattan Athletic Club on May 18, which will include all kinds of out-door sports and on May 20th a ten-mile run will take place. These meetings...
...experiment was recently tried in England to test the speed of a cricket ball. Turner, the well-known fast bowler of the Australian team, made the trial The testing apparatus consisted of a chronograph and a screan, across which wires were stretched, and through these wires electric currents were passed. When the ball cut the wires the record was instantly marked on the chronograph. The speed of the ball was discovered to be 81 feet a second or 55 miles an hour...
Students who wish to see the Harvard-Technology race this afternoon can take the horse car to Watertown, then walk across the bridge and up the hill. The start and finish will be about four hundred yards from the top of the hill. The race will be started at 2.30 and will finish soon after three o'clock. Harvard will be represented by the following men, who will meet at the gymnasium at two o'clock: Barron, Brown, Rogers, Wirts, Holmes and Greenleaf...