Word: feets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sternberg, '93, Green, '92, Alward, L. S., Wendell, '91, Baker, '93, Moen, '91, and Evans. '90, (dead heal), Powers, '91, Hale, S. S., Rothschild, '91. Of these men, Green, Sternberg, Hawes, Moen, Wendell, and Hale were in the final. Green won the event in four seconds with seven feet handicap; Hawes was second and Sternberg third...
...Contestants will be handicapped according to their known record; those whose ability is unknown will be handicapped at twenty-eight feet in the shot-putting contest, and at four feet and ten inches in the high jumping contest. 2. The winner in each contest will score as many points as there are men in that contest; the second man one less, etc.; every man scoring according to his position. 3. The handicaps of the contestants will be changed according to any improvement made over their former records.4. Those who win at the several contests will have their names upon...
...Davy's shop, the other eleven boats are being built and include five four-oared boats, two pairs, one double scull, and three single sculls. The dimensions of the four oared boats are as follows: Length 38 feet, 6 inches, width 25 inches, and depth 814 inches. Three of the four oared boats are being planked and all of the boats will be rigged with Meaney's roller seats and rowlocks. These four oared boats will be finished by the first of March and the others will be completed by the middle of April. Mr. Weld, the donor...
...overcome with surprise in learning from the article in the Spirit of the Times, from which extracts were recently printed in the CRIMSON, that Yale does not claim the boating championship of American colleges. Cornell, the Sun says, defeated Bowdoin on Lake Quinsigamond, July 5, 1887, by two feet. The argument advanced by the Spirit of the Times, if supplemented by this fact clearly gives the championship to Cornell. Certainly the Yale News and the Harvard Crimson, in endorsing the statements of the Spirit of the Times make this concession. If Yale does not now claim the championship nothing...
...years ago there existed at Harvard a voluntary military organization among the two upper classes known as the Harvard Washington Corps. It was descended from an undergraduate military company of revolutionary times called the Marti Mercutian Band and was organized in 1811. Any senior or junior at least five feet, five inches in height could belong...