Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Beacon game has been postponed indefinitely...
...clear water between '82 and '84. At the sluiceway '82 made a spurt, and '84 was a good four lengths behind. About half-way between the sluiceway and the pump, '82 was still ahead, but '83 was gaining gradually. When the crews were opposite the old inn on Beacon street '83 made a good spurt and gained a fraction of a length on '82. At this time '82 was rowing 32 strokes to a minute; '83, 31 strokes; '84, 30 1/2, and '85, 30. At the pump '82 was still ahead, but '83 was spurting and making a perceptible gain...
...spring meeting, to be held probably at Beacon Park, will be given by the athletic club of the Institute of Technology on May 27. The events will be as follows: 100-yard and 440-yard runs; running high and running broad jumps; putting the shot; standing high jump; pole vault; mile run; three-legged race; throwing the hammer; throwing base-ball tennis, and one-mile bicycle race...
...site of the University of Boston is to be removed from Beacon Hill to the Somerset-street Church, which is to be remodelled...
...library of R. D. Child, of Boston, is to be sold at auction, commencing at 10 o'clock this forenoon, at No. 2 Beacon street. It contains many scarce Americana; including Barlow's "Columbiad;" "George Bancroft's Poems," published at Cambridge, 1823; Eliot's and Pierce's "Histories of Harvard College;" and Harvard Catalogues...