Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...keep the spectators informed about the progress of races from the very start. In the first place, there is a little telegraph office adjoining, through which a constant communication is kept up between the start and each separate half mile flag, and these messages are posted directly in front of the grand stand on huge blackboards erected for this purpose. Besides this method there is another, by which a red or a blue ball is raised as Harvard or Yale is ahead...
...from here is the kitchen, where an enormous negro provides the meals. The other rooms on the ground floor are all used as bed-rooms, two men occupying each. Upstairs there are a number of other sleeping apartments, which impress one as being rather too small for comfort. In front of the house there is a flag-pole, upon which waves the Columbia blue and white, and near this is a little summer house, where the men usually sit in the evening...
...wish to congratulate the editors of the Yale News upon the energy which they have shown in issuing as an extra one of the most interesting numbers of their paper which they have ever printed. The front page bears a fine cut of the proposed gymnasium, and every effort is made to induce graduates to subscribe to the enterprise. We trust that the proposed plans may be carried out successfully, and that Yale will be enabled hereafter to enjoy all the advantages in athletic training which we have been more fortunately allowed. We have long heard complaints from New Haven...
...camera was the rearmost man, either Horr of Cornell, or Lund of Harvard, fully 10 feet behind his leaders. Next came Baker, of Harvard; Bonine, of Michigan, and either Lund or Horr, almost exactly abreast, Bonine, if anything, a shade behind the others. A few feet in front of this row, and close to the inner curb, ran Rogers, of Harvard, while Sherrill, of Yale, was in the middle of the path, and so nearly in front of Lund (or Horr) that the picture shows, only part of his head, part of each shoulder, a thin strip of his left...
...camera seen nothing and records nothing which the human eye, placed it in the same position, would not see; and no man, standing where the instrument stood, could have known who won. A man five yards in front or behind the finish-line frequently thinks the race won by a runner who was a full yard behind. A man 20 or 25 yards away knows nothing at all about a close finish, and the camera knows no more than the man. The writer of this article sat five yards behind the finish line, and thought Sherrill...