Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...quarter-mile run there were four entries, among them Wendell Baker, '86, and W. R. Parry of the Moseley Harriers, England. After rounding the first corner Baker took the lead and maintained it to the end, winning easily, in spite of the efforts of Louis, who came in a fair second. Baker's time was 56 3-4 sec. Considering the sharp turns and the fact that he was not pressed this was good time...
...University of Vermont has received a bequest of $115,000. A handsome gymnasium is to be erected. A bronze statue of Lafayette, who laid the corner-stone of the university, is soon to be unveiled on the campus...
...belonging to the institution have an extent of over one hundred acres. passing through a narrow gateway on the High street, the visitor reaches the first quadrangle called St. John the Ba tist's. In this quadrangle an annual service is held from an old altar standing in one corner, on the day set aside as sacred to that saint. The court is strewn with rushes and hung with green stuffs on that day, probably to represent the wilderness in which St. John preached. At one end of the court stands the Monument Tower, where all the college archives...
...University Club in New York, hitherto located at the corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty-fifth street, has secured a lease of the former club house and theatre of the Union League Club, at Madison avenue and Twenty-sixth street. The lease is for five years and three months from Feb. 1, 1884, at an annual rental of $22,500, with the privilege of a five years' renewal at $24,000 a year...
...different classmen. The classes are distinguished by their colors, each class having red, blue or green caps according to their rank. The different classes never mingle with one another, and it is considered an insult if a red-capped student addresses a blue cap. Each color has its corner in the dueling room, and here the students smoke and drink until the combatants appear. The duelists are dressed and armed in an adjoining room in the following fashion: All the body is protected with thick leather plastrons, and heavy gauntlets cover the hands and arms. Their eyes and nose...