Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Finlay did well in throwing the 16 pound hammer, winning the event with an actual throw of 94 feet, 9 inches. This throw beats the best Harvard record of 93 feet, 2 in., made by H. B. Gibson...
...second; time 8 1-5 seconds. In the 600 yards run G. L. Batchelder '92 won from the scratch in 1 min. 22 1-5 sec. In the running broad jump T. Richardson '94 was the scratch man, and took third place with an actual jump of 21 feet 2 1-2 inches...
...dormitory on the corner of Main and Bow streets. The building is to be four stories high and will have three suites on each floor. It will cost about $22,000, exclusive of the land, and it is to be of brick, with a frontage of 74 feet on Main Street and 87 on Bow. The entrance will be on Main Street...
...Paul waited for his friends to come from Berea, and felt "his spirit stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given over to idolatry." Now what were the idols that so moved him? First in size and importance was the collossal statue of Athena which towered sixty feet high in the centre of the Acropolis, visible for miles around, and the first object sighted by Athenian sailors on their return home. Then, inside the Parthe non was Phidias' famous statue of Athena made of ivory inlaid with gold. Close by, in the Erectheum, was the ancient wooden image...
...Heywood M. I. T., 3 inches. It was a great disappointment to many that Fearing did not break his record or even equal it but he was still suffering from a lame ankle and was by no means in good form. Morse and Heywood failed at 5 feet 1 1-2 inches, and Fearing and Green at 6 1-4. Nickerson cleared the bar at this height and so won the event without his handicap and also broke his own record of 6 ft. The jumping was very pretty and Nickerson won much deserved applause by his graceful and easy...