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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Professor is to have the power of reducing marks six months after they have been announced, and when it is too late for the sufferers to take another examination, it seems to me time for a strong protest. I am not aware that such injustice has ever been done before...
...properly attired. Competitors will please send their colors with their entry. An AMATEUR is any person who has never competed in an open competition, or for a stake, or for public money, or for admission money, or with professionals for a prize, public money, or admission money; nor has ever, at any period of his life, taught or assisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises as a means of livelihood. All communications must be addressed to the secretary...
...fifth Field Meeting of the H. A. A. was held at Beacon Park, Friday, May 24, and proved the most successful that the Association has ever held. Only one event was struck off the programme from the lack of competitors, and the races followed each other without the painfully long delays which usually mark meetings of this kind. The first race, which was started promptly at 4 o'clock...
...been assured, will be disappointed; and others, if the plan is strictly followed, will be brought below the necessary 50%. The general principle on which this action is based is not a good one. If instructors are to have this power of changing marks once given, no one will ever know where he stands, and a man may be notified, a year after he has finished a course, that the instructor has concluded, on reflection, to condition...
...prizes given in each instance will be handsomer than ever before, and they are worth hard work. Those offered by the kindness of private gentlemen and club tables are made conditional on a given time being equalled or beaten, and that is quite right; if gentlemen subscribe handsome medals or cups, they do so to induce men who do not train for the honor or love of athletics, to train sufficiently at least to make our time creditable and respectable. Were we to criticise the gentlemen at all, it would be rather on account of the generous allowance of time...