Word: feet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sheet of canvas is to be stretched across the gymnasium a few feet off from the spring board. It will be so suspended from the running track on both sides that it can be set perpendicularly for the men to jump against, or obliquely for them to jump into. The addition of the plane and canvas will not only make the jumping more exciting but will make it much better exercise...
...Harvard men. The following events are open to all amateurs and will be governed by A. A. U. rules: 880 yards run, novice, scratch, and seven handicap events, viz. fifty yards, two hundred yards, one thousand yards, and two mile runs, two hundred and twenty yards hurdle race (2 feet 6 inch hurdles) mile walk, and running high jump. Handicapping by official handicapper of A. A. U. Gold medal to first and silver medal to second in each event. Prizes will be on exhibition at A. G. Spaulding's, Broadway...
...bears a marked resemblance to Edwards Hall, but the large main entrance in the middle of the building greatly enhances its beauty and gives it the finest entrance of any dormitory on the Campus. This entrance, with its Indiana lime-stone columns, opens into a large vestibule, twenty feet square. From all indications the building will be completed and ready for occupancy by September; it is to be four stories high, with accommodations for eighty students...
...averages of the measurements of the Yale freshmen have been taken. The age is 18 years, 1 month; the weight, 135 pounds; and the height, 5 feet, 7.5 inches...
Ames is the best pole vaulter at Princeton. He has cleared 9 feet, 4 inches...