Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Athletic Association are to be held on Thursday, May 2, at 4 o'clock. The events will be as follows: 100, 220, 440, 880 yards, and one-mile runs; 120 and 220-yards hurdle race; two-mile bicycle race; mile walk; putting the shot; throwing the hammer, running broad jump, running high jump and pole vault. Entries cannot be made later than 10 o'clock Wednesday evening, May 1st, but up to that time they may be left at 9 Linden street, or sent to Mr. Jacob Wendell, Jr., secretary of the association...
...which can be made uniform only gradually, and the concessions which roads grant to large cities and large interests, are the obstacles to securing uniformity in railroad service. These difficulties in the question of reasonable rates are inherent, and therefore the whole matter should be considered in a broad and liberal spirit. The Inter-state act has not yet entirely done away with the evils of free transportation. An assumption that the public is not concerned in a company's granting free transportation is common; but it is a fallacy, since the free rider travels at the expense...
Columbia expects to win the following events at the Mott Haven Intercollegiate contests: The tug of-war, Mapes in the hurdle race and broad jump, Banks in the quarter, McIlvaine or Collis in the mile walk, and Hornbostle or Vosburg in the mile run, with a number of seconds...
...second in the mile walk. The tug-of-war will be a close struggle between Columbia and Harvard, but will probably be won by the former. Webster will doubtless win the high jump for Pennsylvania, with Lee of Harvard second. Shearman will win the polo vault. The running broad jump is an uncertain event. Shearman, '89, or Robinson, '90, ought to win, with Mapes of Columbia, second. The hammer throwing and shot-putting will probably be taken by Coxe for Pennsylvania with Bowser of the same college second in the former, and Janeway of Princeton, second in the latter. Davis...
Merrill '89, who has run at Mott Haven in late years, is at present practicing broad jumping...