Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wrong kind of cinders was used in the original laying-out of the track, and the whole contract was carried out in a thoroughly unsatisfactory and careless way. A survey made last fall has shown, moreover, that the whole field has sunk somewhat - in places, as much as a foot. If this is the actual state of affairs, - and there seems no reason to doubt the correctness of these statements, - something must be done at once. No one will care to make a record on a track which is not level, and the one branch of athletics in which Harvard...
...glassy ice his erring foot betrays...
...part of his person. Stepping over the line in an attempt will be "no jump," but will count as a "try." In the Intercollegiate rules the competitor was allowed to take off where he pleased, and the measurement was taken "from the toe of the extreme forward foot-print from which the rise is taken, to the backward heel-mark made in descending." This distinction, it will be seen, is a most important one, and those who have been practising under the Intercollegiate rules will have to be very careful to avoid disqualification. It is of service to the collegians...
...foot of a Jew of an ebony...
...that its constitution, as it stood, practically declared that unless a man believe the peculiar doctrines laid down in it, he cannot be expected to do the work of a good man, and is, therefore, unfit to be a member of the society. A movement was therefore set on foot to amend the constitution so as to admit men into the society whose character could not be impeached, whose membership the society would have reason to be proud of, but who have the misfortune to differ in opinion with the majority of the members about the truth of certain unessential...