Word: green
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...successful contestant in a one-mile walk there - Green of Harvard - is thus described, in the moment of his hard-earned victory (N. Y. Times, July 16): 'He hurried down the lane to the string, which he reached, pale and exhausted, unable to stand still, and finally staggered into friendly arms outstretched to receive him.' Pitiful! very pitiful! Could any surer mode be invented of making a youth inevitably second-rate in mental, not to say moral, force, all the rest of his life? . . . . The new exercises for undergraduates serve to increase their natural centrifugal tendency to fly away from...
...dark-green olive whence our offspring feed...
...Treas.OWING to the dissatisfaction with the management of the Athletic Sports at Saratoga last year, a separate organization, to have control of such sports in future, was organized by a convention in Springfield on Saturday, under the name of "The Athletic Association of American Colleges." G. W. Green of Harvard was President of the convention, and F. Marquand of Princeton, Secretary; and ten colleges were represented, as follows: Amherst, L. G. Beck; Columbia, Randolph Hurry, James A. Renwick; Cornell, A. M. Ensign; Harvard, G. W. Green; Princeton, W. T. Kauffman, F. A. Marquand; Trinity, J. D. McKennan, W. C. Skinner...
...then some things are better green...
...race in 5 min. 2 1/2 sec. Mr. Lowell then mounted the judges' stand, and, after receiving his prize, - a magnificent silver tankard, - leaped from the stand to the ground, and disappeared in the crowd amidst loud shouts of applause. The next event was a one-mile walk between Green, '76; Taylor, '77; and Legate, '77. Taylor took the lead at once, and gained steadily on each quarter, Green and Legate following in the order named. Taylor came in an easy winner in 7.33 1/2, Green being second in 8.15, and Legate third. In the running high jump the contestants...