Word: inch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Harper of the Chicago University has concluded the purchase of the forty inch lenses made for the University of California, and no time is being lost to complete the erection of the University observatory which is to be the largest in the world. The lenses are in the hands of Alvin G. Clarck of Cambridge who has promised to have them ready in eighteen months. The work of planning the details of the buildings begins at once, and estimates for the mounting of the telescope and equipment of the observatory have been ordered...
Broad Jump. - Won by G. C. Child, '94; actual jump, 19 feet 1 inch; J. Cuntz, second; R. Atherton, '96, third...
Pole Vault. - Won by. O. G. Cartwright, '93, (scratch;) distance of actual vault, 10 feet 1 inch; E. H. Hart, '94, second; T. Rice, '94, third...
...Paine also took first in the high jump clearing the bar at 5 feet 2 1-2 inches. with F. Holt, R. L. S., second, at 5 feet 2 inches and W. E. Putnam, Jr., third, at 5 feet 1-2 inch...
...great event of the day was the breaking of the record for pole vaulting by H. L. Towne of Williams, who vaulted the bar at 10 ft. 9 in. This beats the intercollegiate record by 1 1-4 inches and the association record by 9 inches. The 220 yd. hurdle record was lowered one fifth of a second by H. C. Ide of Dartmouth, who also made a new record for the 220 yd. dash. In the two mile bicycle race G. D. Pratt of Amherst reduced the record from...