Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...BRETHREN: These old familiar strains have set us in easy motion. The Spaniards have a proverb that 'leaving home is half the journey,' so much do they make of the start. But you are already on the threshold, and Harvard pilgrims, like those of Canterbury of long centuries ago, are quick to entertain themselves. Different men find many different attractions in a time like this, but I think we shall all of us agree that one of them, at least, is its evenness. The scales, elsewhere ascending and descending with great abruptness, here come to a quiet poise...
...wish to question the wisdom of this method in the particular cases that we have in mind; there may be reasons strong enough to justify its adoption. On general principles, however, the system is not a good one. In the first place the student gets but half an hour of instruction, instead of the full hour, which, when he took the course, he had every reason to suppose he would receive. Then again, when his half-hour is over, he must be an unwilling listener to instruction that, in most cases at least, can be of little...
...small audience. There were few entries, and as several events did not fill, men were allowed to enter at the post. 100-yards, F. W. Brown, '78, S. S., 10 1/4 sec.; running high jump, O. D. Thompson, '79, and Jewett, '79, tied at 5 ft. 2 in.; half-mile, H. Livingston, '79, 2 min. 8 sec., not 2 minutes as reported in our last issue; tug of war, '81; throwing baseball, W. J. Hutchinson, '80, 343 ft. 8 in.; Senior quarter-mile, T. E. Mower, 1 min. 9 sec.; mile-walk, A. A. Dorsheimer...
...first meeting of the Athletic Association of this college was held on May 25, and we append the results of the different races. Hundred-yards, J. D. Cheever, 10 3/4 sec.; mile-walk, L. Webster, 8 min. 46 sec.; running broad-jump, R. M. Campbell, 20 ft. 11 in.; half-mile run, F. G. Russell, 2 min. 33 sec.; three-legged race, Wilcox and Camp-bell, 16 1/4 sec.; quarter-mile run, E. D. Appleton, 58 sec.; running high-jump, F. G. Russell, 5 ft.; three-mile walk, L. Webster, 36 min.; 100-yard hurdle-race, F. D. Wilcox...
Yale. - The Athletic Sports of this college came off, on May 29, at New Haven. F. W. Brown, '78, won the 100-yards dash in 10 1/4 sec, which is wonderfully fast time. H. L. Livingston, '79, won the half-mile run in 2 min. If this time is correct, and the distance run was 880 yards, it is the fastest amateur time in America by some seconds; and we think, although we have not the records at hand just now, that it is very nearly the best amateur time ever made. Mr. Livingston also won the quarter-mile...