Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bicycle road race between Harvard and Technology will take place next Saturday afternoon. The start will be promptly at 2.30 and the race will take about an hour. The finish will be near St. Mary's street, on the Beacon street boulevard. There will probably be a large number of entries from each club, but only the first five men from each side will count at the finish. There will be a run over the course today and Thursday in order that the competitors may become familiar with the turns. The joint committee have considered the question of a perpetual...
...Cross in 49 2-5 s., the quickest time on record for an Englishman at the distance. The honor of having eclipsed all others at a quarter of a mile belongs to Wendell Baker, formerly of Harvard, whose record of 47 3-4s. made at Beacon Park, Allston, in 1886, remains unbroken...
...Harvard and M. I. T. will be over a course beginning at a point about half mile this side of Newton Corners, thence to Newtonville, then turning to the right directly through West Newton to the Great Sign Boards; then turning to the left back to the starting pointvia Beacon and Walnut streets, a distance of nine miles. Harvard's team will consist of Rogers, '90. Bailey, '91, Barron. '91, Brown, '91, Greenleaf, '92, Wirts, '92, and Holmes, '92. There will be a run over the course this afternoon at 4 o'clock, starting from the gymnasium...
...parade. At 7.15 the Harvard battalion began to form on the Charles St. Wall of the Common, the seniors at the Bacon street gate, the other classes extending in order toward Boylston St. The company from the Medical School formed behind the freshmen. At 7.45, the column moved along Beacon and Arlington streets, to its position as a part of the third division on the north side of Commonwealth avenue, the right of the column resting on Dartmouth street. Here the battallion halted, and the men amused themselves in divers innocent ways. After an almost interminable delay the division fell...
After the formation has been completed, the battalion will march by way of Beacon and Arlington streets to its position in the third division of the procession, on the north side of Commonwealth avenue, the right resting on Dartmouth street. The procession is expected to start at 8.30, the signal being given by the firing of three guns on the common. The column will move from Boylston and Dartmouth streets, passing by the Brunswick, where the line will be reviewed by Governor Ames; thence through Berkeley street, Columbus avenue, Worcester to Washington streets to Adams square, at the foot...