Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...firm of J. Bergmann & Brothers of Troy, are about to build for the Yale University crew a new paper shell, to combine all the advantages of shells hitherto used, without disadvantages. It is 65 feet by 25 inches, one foot longer and one inch wider than the shell used in last year's race. This shell is to be tested by the Yale crew and is sent by the manufacturers merely as an experiment...
...second trial of the high jumping contest held in the gymnasium at Yale last Saturday was won by Sherwood, '90, with a jump of 5 3-4 feet by reason of his handicap over Shearman, '89, who jumped 5ft. 2 3-4 inches...
...general way, about the plan of the buildings. The lot selected is a square of about eight acres, at the South End, about 11-4 miles from city Hall. It is bounded by May, Maywood, Woodland and Downing streets. The design is to have the principal building, about 500 feet long, at the rear of the lot, near Woodland street, leaving room for a campus gently sloping toward Main street. - Boston Daily Advertiser...
...Night" by W. A. Leahy, follows, and we cannot help asking, - Why must a college man - or any other, - when writing poetry, think that it consists in placing the best where the worst should be and vice-versa, and in trampling the sense under the feet of most extraordinary similes and metaphors. There is good thought in this piece but it is so "hidden" that one finds difficulty in discerning it. About half way through the poem - we regret the inability to quote, - the metaphors clear away, and for some time there is real poetry we honestly think...
There are now over two hundred toboggans at the Corey Hill club house. The chute of the slide is about 1400 feet long, but when in good condition the toboggans go way beyond that distance...