Word: fall
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee appointed by the Bicycle Club to make arrangements for the annual fall road-race has decided to hold it on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 8. The course will be the same as that chosen for the intended race last spring: starting from the bridge at Mt. Auburn, direct, through Watertown and West Newton to Great Sign Boards, thence to Newton Center by way of Beacon and Walnut streets, then back through Watertown, finishing at the starting point. The course as described above is about fourteen miles long, Liberal handicaps will be given in order to make the finish as close...
...University at Worcester, Mass., enters upon its first year of work this fall. It is not known how many students will avail themselves of the opportunities offered by this new university, but the number will probably be large. The main building is now ready for occupancy, while work on the chemical laboratory is being rapidly pushed forward to completion. The plans as originally laid out, call for a quadrangle with laboratories and dormitories on every Saturday. The other building will not, however, be raised until the increased needs of the university demand them. Mr. S. Stanley Hall has received...
...game this fall, Stearns, the pitcher of the Phillips Andover Academy nine, shut out the opposing team without a base hit. Only twenty-eight men faced him, and of these he assisted in the disposal of twenty-two, being credited with twenty-one strike-outs...
...Berkeley Athletic Club of New York, which possesses one of the finest athletics grounds in America, has announced a fall bicycle tournament for October 20. The program includes a half-mile open race, a one and two mile handicap race, and a two mile intercollegiate. There are three prizes in each event. The course is a twenty-foot wide, four-lap track with raised corners, so that the highest speed is possible...
...eight is, at present, in great need of a tank similar to that of Yale's. In it the men learn more quickly how to handle their oars and are more easily "coached." Then, also, a series of races in the fall of the year between two picked crews would be beneficial, the eight to be select from all the rowing men in college. These trial heats have been tried at Oxford and Cambridge with favorable results...