Word: heights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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George M. Hendee, the sixteen-year-old bicycling phenomenon, contemplates going to England in the spring with a view to getting races with wheelmen there. He stands 5 feet 10 1/2 inches in height, and weighs 156 lbs. Mr. Hendee is to enter Yale shortly...
...college record in pole vaulting was broken last Saturday by Harriman of Princeton, at Stenton; height...
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...race, sets the crew a beautiful stroke. Behind him the ponderous Chalfant, with a trunk like Schwartz's and with massive legs and thighs, in boating parlance, "puts plenty of beef into his oar" at every stroke. Then come Hudgens, tall and squarely built; Clark and Hammond, men of height and brawn; Sawyer at No. 2, where he rowed last year, while Cabot, last year's No. 3, occupies the bow. The stroke is a familiar one to those who have watched the Harvard crews for the last six years. It is the same that Bancroft, the best boating...
...class statistics of '82 have just appeared and give some very interesting figures. The class is a very small one, graduating only thirty-nine men. The class is the youngest that has graduated since '75, the average age being 22 years, 5 months, 4 days. The average height is 5 feet 9 1/2 inches; weight, 154 2/3 lbs.; chest, 37 inches; forearm, 10 7/8; biceps, 12 1/4; calf, 14; hips, 33; thigh, 21; shoulder breadth, 17; hat, 7; shoe, 7; glove, 7 1/2. Eleven have chosen law; 8, business; 6, ministry; 3, teaching; 2, medicine; 1, science; 1, manufacturing...