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...mile relay Greeley of Yale had the pole, but Tibbetts took the lead in the first half-lap. Greeley remained close at his heels the whole distance. Chapin took the baton from Tibbetts in time to start with a three-yard lead over Multer. A couple of bursts of speed in the last two laps enabled Chapin to hand a fifteen-yard lead to Cutcheon. Cutcheon ran a fast, steady six laps in which he widened the gap over Gibson. Haggerty, well known to local track fans, was cheered wildly as he rushed farther and farther ahead of Laughlin...
...perhaps not surprising that she left little mark in the campaign of 1872, for that was a very hot contest. Grant was running for a second term. At a convention of Liberal Republicans in Cincinnati, Horace Greeley, editor of The New York Tribune, was nominated over Charles Francis Adams. Greeley was for high tariff; he had often flayed the Democrats. Yet the Democratic convention chose "to eat crow" and nominated Greeley. For a time Greeley scared the Grant men. He drew huge audiences when he spoke. The campaign became viciously personal. Thomas Nast, having just helped to upset the Tweed...
...although Greeley had drawn the audiences, Grant drew the votes. In the electoral college Grant had 272 electoral votes, Greeley 66, and Mrs. Woodhull none...
...less heat than usual, it has now returned to normal. It is hoped to be able to learn the periods of fluctuations in the sun's heat in order to make "long distance" weather predictions. Attempts of that nature are already going forward in Chile.-Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, Smithsonian Institution...
...following is the list of those elected to the acting department: Greeley Stevenson Curtis '28 of Cambridge, Donald Fay Dunne '28 of Somerville, William Burton Wilson '26 of Portland, Maine, Ralph Nye '27 of Ogden, Utah, Baird Luther Dickson '27 of Lakewood, Ohio; to the property department: Donald Fay Robinson '26 of Wilmington, Delaware...