Word: hounded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fast hunt" the scent shall be laid from the start, and each hound shall be permitted to go at his own pace...
Austin, '87, and Dana, '88, will be the hares in the run to-day. They will be started from the steps of Matthews at 3.45, and seven minutes later the hounds will start with Webster, '87, as master. The hares will lay a trail for fifty minutes, and then drop their bags and break for the finish at the gymnasium. The hounds will win unless the hares come in fifteen minutes ahead. If the hares win, both get cups; also the first hound; otherwise the two first hounds win cups...
...most pleasing events of fall athletics is the annual series of hare and hound runs. The present weather is in every respect so well suited for a successful run that it is a matter of surprise that one has not already been arranged. Every day of such weather should be utilized. In past years the runs have been invariable successful, and an extra effort should be made to bring the sport before the new students, for the exercise is adapted to develop staying powers as well as fleetness of foot. While the exertion of a quick run is often...
Saturday afternoon at 2.41, Webster, '87, and Dana, '88, hares, started from Matthews for the longest run of the season. Eight minutes later they were followed by about seven hounds. The course was through Watertown, Newton, around Chestnut Hill reservoir, through Brighton and Allston to the Brookline bridge, where the break was made for home, the whole distance being about thirteen miles. The hares reached the gymnasium at 4.41, followed, one minute later by the first hound, Bowen, '87. The second hound in was Marquand, '89. It will be seen that the hounds won, but probably by a slight irregularity...
...second run of the season occurred yesterday afternoon and was unusually successful. The scent lay fair and even, and only once were the hounds seriously at fault, and then through their own short-sightedness. The hares, A. T. Dudley, '87, and Dana, '88, started from the front of Matthews at 4.20, and they were followed after the regulation interval by a pack of thirty hounds with Webster, '87, master, at their head. The track lay first through Prof. Norton's woods and the grounds at Sandy Hill, then into Somerville, up over Winter Hill and through the back yards...