Word: finals
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...yards dash (final heats...
...Bicycle race (final heat...
...Referee has entire control of the races, and his decision is final. Any competitor refusing to abide by his decision shall be disqualified...
...trials are to be conducted. We fully realize the difficulties in the way of a satisfactory arrangement, but it seems to us that something better could be devised for a preliminary trial than merely having the Boylston Professor select twenty of the speakers to take part in the final contest. When we consider the fondness of judges for making an award which shall astonish everybody, we cannot help feeling that it is impossible for one single man to pick out twenty men, and say that they, and none but they, stand a chance for the five prizes that are offered...
...Berkeleyan for March contains an article on Robert Burns, which is open to the foregoing criticism, and the final paragraph shows the danger of continuing in speaking or writing after an effort has reached a natural conclusion, although it may be an error incident to inexperience; and in this case the omission of that paragraph would have saved the explicit declaration that "Burns was a man of talent and many excellences," in opposition to the general opinion that he was one of the greatest of the poetic geniuses of the eighteenth century...