Word: bacon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ferriday, 31 feet 8 inches. Senior quarter-mile run for the Potter challenge medal-J. McD. Garfield, 0.55 2-5: second, W. P. Niles, 0.57. One-mile walk for the Evarts challenge cup-H. W. Thornton, 7.50; second, L. R. Parker, 7.53. Junior half-mile run-L. Bacon, 2.19 1-5; second, A. Garfield, 2.19 1-2. Throwing the base-ball-W. B. Dinsmore, jr., 328 feet 2 1-2 inches; second, E. H. Floyd-Jones, 322 feet. Junior 220-yards' dash-W. Swayne, jr., 0.24; second, G. W. Laughlin, 0.28. Senior two-mile bicycle race-A. F. Kountze...
...match B, handicap, O. H. Holder and Coyle tied for first place, scoring 19. Holder won on the shoot off. There was also a tie for second place between Jackson and Palmer; score, 18. Palmer finally won. Match C, from which prize-winners are barred, went to Bacon, who broke 16 birds. O. H. Holder and Coyle tied for second prize...
...crew this year is under the direction of a committee of five, consisting of Messrs. R. C. Watson, Robert Bacon, Francis Peabody, Jr., H. W. Keyes and Captain E. C. Storrow. Heretofore the graduates have had little opportunity to give the crews the benefit of their experience and the crew has been almost entirely under the control of men who have been interested in rowing only two or three years. The plan of having the students work together in this matter with men of larger experience is considered to be an important step...
...patches of clear water, but on the high flats and marshes there is very much ice which floats down as the tides flow off of the marshes and piles itself up in the river. There are two large coal schooners that were caught by the ice at Richardson and Bacon's wharf, and it is probable that tugs will soon break their way up and tow them away. This will start the ice, and the tide, aided by the sun, which is now so high as to be quite effective on the salt ice, will soon clear the river...
Richardson and Bacon...