Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large lecture-room, intended for general elementary lectures, is fitted up with the best modern appliances, with running water, with high-pressure hot water, with electric currents, with oxygen-hydrogen lamps, etc. The room above is the elementary; etc. The room above is the elementary; it is sixty feet by sixty feet, the largest of its kind, and is used by one hundred and thirty students. The excellent work done in this laboratory is exerting a great influnce over the country, and preparatory schools, especially Exeter, are establishing physical laboratories on the same plan. The western part of the building...
...Phillips Andover winter tournament took place Saturday. There were numerous sparring and wrestling entries. Coxe, '89, put the shot 32 feet, 6 inches, and also won the high jump, 5 feet, 1 inch. Silver cups were awarded as prizes...
...Athletic Association games took place Saturday evening. C. T. R. Bates, '92, was the only Harvard representative who won his event. He won the mile walk in 7 minutes, 41 seconds, handicap of 50 seconds. V. Mapes, of Columbia, won the 50 yards dash in 6 seconds, handicap 12 feet. Company B pulled Columbia one half inch in the tug of tug-of-war contest. B. G. Woodruff of Yale, won the obstacle race in 1 minute, 21 seconds...
...were: H. O. Stickney, L. S., M. M. Smith, '92, H. R. Allen, jr., '92, A. H. Green, '92, and G. L. Hunter, '89. Smith and Green dropped out after they had each made three trials, and the event was finally won by Allen with a put of 32 feet, 6 inches. Hunter was second with a put of 31 feet, 3-4 inch. Stickney's best put was 30 feet, 8 inches...
Ninety-one got the drop by six inches, and steadily increased this distance throughout the whole tug, so that they had, when the time was up, 4 feet, 4inches...