Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...QUARTER-MILE RUN.Entries. Fessenden (scratch), H. L. Clark (25 yards handicap). Fessenden was unable to make up the whole 25 yards, and came in about five yards behind Clark. Fessenden's time was 55 seconds...
HARVARD, 4; TRINITY, 2.The game was rather uninteresting to witness, neither side doing any fine playing. Instead of the regular battery, Palmer and Jones of the freshman team pitched and caught until the sixth inning, when Tilden played behind the bat. Carpenter, of the Trinity nine, was hit by a ball in the fourth inning and was obliged to leave the field. His place was taken by Leaf, while Rogers took Leaf's place at left field. The game was stopped at the end of the sixth inning in order to allow Trinity to catch the train. Appended...
...occasional leave of absence is granted for an extended trip to Siberia. This rustication is not preceded by a warning or a summons. U. 5 would have no terrors for a Russian. On the whole, their student life is as far behind the German as the latter is behind the English or American. The universities, however, exert a powerful influence on national thought and life...
...Year after year Harvard crews have been taught by words and by experience to believe that their regular stroke is a good one. In 1883 when Yale, pulling a very rapid stroke, was left twenty lengths or more behind, all critics joined in praising the Harvard method. Competent amateurs, it will now be observed, attribute the success of '87 on Friday to the mistake made by '85 in attempting to pull a stroke of forty-four to the minute during the first mile of the race. It is as true a saying as it is trite, that it is wise...
...Fredriksen was taken with pneumonia a few weeks since, lost his consciousness almost immediately, and died after an illness of ten days. He leaves behind him a wife and two young children, and for their future support, very little beyond the uncollected, and in many cases unrecorded debts of the students...