Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expected to give the men suppleness; and without strict training to prepare them to get into racing condition as soon as the track opens in the spring. The sharp corners of the running track in the gymnasium do not allow very fast work, but every day the spinters cover three or four laps at a good rate of speed. The distance men run further and slower; quite fast enough, however, for some of the newer candidates. Lately the track on Holmes field has been covered with a smooth coating of ice, and on mid-days the runners with their spiked...
...also said that "Flying Childers" ran 1-2 mile in 20 sec. His stride or leap was measured and found to be a trifle over thirty feet. He was never known to cover less that 25 ft. at every stride...
...every man who cares to do so can spend an hour at the club house with the hope of meeting the men whom he meets every day in the yard, and with the same probability of a more intimate acquaintance, the club will prove but little else than a covered highway, offering the same opportunities and no more than the corridor of many of the city hotels. This plan it is said will obviate the present tendency to the formation of cliques. This is far from assured. These so-called cliques are no more or less groups of men formed...
Instead of ten arbitrary questions upon ten single points which could by no possibility adequately cover the ground gone over in the course during the half-year, and whose answers could be but a very poor criterion of the student's knowledge of the course at best; these papers have contained either fewer questions, but of a comprehensive character such as would allow the student an opportunity to show whether he could write intelligently upon the subject, or else there have been many more questions in order that the student might have an option in his choice of subjects...
...noted carefully the irregularities on the field when it was covered with snow-ice; and unless the gentleman would wish to cover the back-stop fence, I am convinced that five or six inches of water would make as smooth a field of ice as three or four feet would. Every winter a mass of snow-ice accumulates on Holmes Field, sometimes to a considerable depth; none of the dire calamities which the gentleman predicts would follow artificial flooding, have ever yet occurred, and I am sure a few inches of ice will have no perceptible effect on the field...