Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Greenleaf's time for the nine miles was 36 minutes, 23 4-5 seconds, which is very fast considering the condition of the roads. Norton and Williston of Technology were very close to him at the finish. The others were some distance behind as they were delayed at the railway crossing in West Newton. Bradley of Technology took a bad header near the finish and was unable...
Already there has been secured from Bubastis, which Heroditus considered the most beautiful of all Egyptian temples, an exquisite colossal face of Hathor, the Egyptian Venus, which will probably be accompanied by a toppiece of the lotus-columns of the temple. As fast as the sculptures are received they will be placed in the Egyptian department of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where they will form the most interesting collection of Egyptian antiquities in America, and will also be of great value from an artistic point of view...
...last number of the North American Review has another article on the Fast Set at Harvard by "One of Them...
...permission to build a rowing tank in the old gymnasium, which the rowing authorities have been so long working for. has at last been granted. The executive committee is pushing the work as fast as it is possible. Building plans are being prepared and masons have already given estimates of the cost of the stone-work. Although everything will be done to hasten the completion of the tank, on account of the great changes which the old gymnasium will have to undergo, it will necessarily be some time before the crew can commence working regularly in it. It is hoped...
...fifth hare and hounds run of the season was held yesterday afternoon. The hounds won for the first time this year. It was a fast hunt; that is, there was no break and the hounds were not required to keep together. The hares, Gorham, '90 and Downs, '90 started from Matthews at 3.21 and left a very good trail through Cambridge to Fresh Pond, thence through Watertown, the Newtons, Brighton and Barry's Corners, leaving the back at the last named place. They arrived at the gymnasium at 4.55, after a hard run of twelve miles. Twelve hounds started...