Word: distant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...racing men into two classes, professional and amateur. Amateurs are those men who ride for prizes not above the value of $35. The L. A. W. takes the standpoint that no man can be an amateur who is able to stand the expense of riding the circuits in states distant from his home. Consequently they have made the rule that no amateur can ride in any races held over 200 miles from his place of residence. Thus the rule requires that every man shall have a domicile and reason requires that he shall have one and but one domicile...
...number of cases of sickness caused by the recent changeability of the spring weather emphasizes the pressing need of a suitable University Infirmary. As it is now, those who are seriously sick must either be taken to some distant hospital or else put up at the so-called Hospital on Holmes Field, where the accommodations are hopelessly inadequate...
...three years amount to. The enormous benefactions by single individuals in recent years to Leland Stanford University and the University of Chicago have built up in a few years powerful educational institutions which in material resources, so necessary to a great university's welfare, and in attendance are no distant rivals of the New England universities built up through long years of toil and self-sacrifice...
...Fogg Art Museum, last night, on the "Excavations at Troy." He referred to the fact that different answers had been given to these questions both in antiquity and in the present day. There lay, in antiquity, on a hill in the valley of the Scamander, three or four miles distant from the Hellespont, a Greek city called Ilion, adorned with a temple of Athena. The inhabitants of this city believed that they lived on the site of ancient Troy; Xerxes and Alexander the Great visited the place that they might see the scene of the action of the Trojan...
...quadrangular university race at Poughkeepsie is now only a week distant. This year Harvard meets new adversaries and a glance at the respective methods of the crews is interesting...