Word: columned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...excellent article on this sport appeared in the Athletic Column of the Spirit of the Times of September 28, and it well repays reading, as does an article on "Time Handicapping...
...gentlemen composing the Executive Committee - their names will be found in another column - met together on Wednesday evening and decided many important questions. They proceeded immediately to consider the advisability of having an autumn meeting. and after some slight discussion as to the date, fixed upon Saturday, November...
...handicaps was next discussed, and it was decided to begin by handicapping the bicycle race. Consequently, all who intend competing for the bicycle prize in the University Games on November 2 will find it to their interest to be on hand the previous Saturday. The Editor of our "Sporting Column" has offered a prize fully as handsome as the one given last May, for the Winner in this sport. There will be three heats on each day, of one mile each, the best two in three to win. The following is the order of events...
...readers will find in another column a notice of the sad death of Professor Baxter, who was to have returned to his duties here this autumn. As all who have been in his classes will testify, Mr. Baxter was a very interesting teacher, and his kindness and geniality succeeded in making elocution quite popular among us, notwithstanding the small encouragement given by the Faculty to that important study...
...suppose the Faculty would mind if I made a modest suggestion about the arrangement and order of the examinations? I once thought of calling on the President and telling him of it verbally, but some one said I need not be discovered if I wrote to your letter column; and I prefer to be incog, at any rate until I see whether the Faculty will adopt my plan...