Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...once more resumed an active position on the Nine, but the weak batting of Amherst did not give him a chance to exhibit his skill in the field. Thayer made a brilliant catch of a hot liner, and Ernst held a fly, straight from the bat, in his left hand. Thayer, Latham, and Wright made a fine double play in the third inning...
Putting our hand into our drawer, we next chance on a piece in blank-verse. Perhaps it would be well enough to give its title...
...Hand my bow, and let me test...
...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 in 54 3/1 sec. O. D. Thompson, '79, and J. Jewett, S. S., '79, were tied in the running high-jump at 5 ft. 2 in. Dorshimer, '78, won the mile...
...seemed best to those in power, there was a race of twenty-four stadia on a machine, wonderful to look upon, called by those inhabiting this region a bicycle, which is of such a kind as follows : there are two wheels, of which the foremost, on the one hand, is large, having many and long spokes, but the one behind, on the other hand, is very small. On these machines, then, they contended in the stadium; and two youths especially rode near to one another, at one time one being first, at another time another; but finally he that...