Word: counts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Cross Country Association, held in the Fith Avenue Hotel, it was voted to allow nine men to start in the race, the first six finishing to count, not the first four as formerly. It was also voted to hold the intercollegiate meet next year at Princeton. Havron, of Princeeon, was appointed manager of the next meet, with the track team managers of Columbia and Pennsylvania as assistant managers...
...count in our Harvard College Library, as I have myself done, with the aid of the most varied linguist there employed, the titles of at least 100 versions from Longfellow scattered through
...meet of the season with Brown at Providence. The program will include the following events: 50-yard dash, 100-yard dash, 220-yard swim, plunge for distance, diving, four-man relay race, and a water polo game. In scoring, first place in each of the first five events will count 5 points, second place 3, third place 1; and the relay race will count 8 points for the winner. The water polo game, however, will be scored separately and will count as one game toward the intercollegiate championship...
...from their standpoint, I venture to say that we are losing that mediaeval habit of dreaming of the celestial opportunities of day-after-tomorrow. Immortality as revealed by our faith, should mean a man's living now, not that he is going to live at some future time. I count it far better to deserve immortality and not to have it than to have it and not deserve...
...rule of the Amateur Fencers' League of America was adopted to govern the intercollegiate contests. By this rule a touch between the waistline and the collar will count as a point, whether the stroke is made in back or in front...