Word: birds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Third heat-Won by H. K. Bird, Columbia; second, H. B. Hewitt, Harvard; third, C. M. Donohue, Tufts. Time...
...Ruppert, J. S. Williams, G. B. Underhill, H. K. Bird, W. H. Fearing, from Columbia; G. H. Macfarland, from Princeton; W. Harthorne and H. N. Pratt, from Colby; F. Slach, from Columbian University; C. M. Donohue and W. W. White, from Tufts; R. Dawson, from Stevens Institute; and W. D. Eaton, H. B. Hewitt, J. F. Marsten, J. F. Wood, E. D. Powers, H. H. Richards, G. F. Baker, G. F. Hart, A. E. Dacy, H. C. Burdett, A. S. Wingersky, and E. S. Hatch, from Harvard...
Quarter-mile race-Final heat won by J. T. Williams, Columbia; second, G. B. Underhill, Columbia; third, H. K. Bird, Columbia. Time...
...bicyclists will be perhaps the most prominent on the track. The college has many excellent riders. There are Goodman and Ottman, and Dickie, who won the two-mile handicap from scratch within two seconds of the intercollegiate record time at the fall games; W. H. Bird, a N. Y. Athletic Club man; Williams, why rode second in the Princeton-Columbia intercollegiate meet last spring; George Ruppert; Morrill, who won his heat in the intercollegiate race two years ago, and Captain Fearing, who scored Columbia's only point in the '95 intercollegiate meet. Besides these there are a good many less...
After first comparing the skeletons and wings of birds with those of insects and bats, and tracing the different stages of development from the simplest species of insects, Professor Morgan gave a detailed explanation of a bird's wing. He showed that the wing muscles and the heavy bones are at the bottom of the body and the lungs and air-cells at the top, so that the bird, ballasted as it is, naturally rights itself when in air. The feathers of the wing are divided into primary and secondary feathers. In all swift flying birds the primary or outer...