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Boston University's Nickerson Field is a five-minute jaunt from Harvard...
Fernandez, who plays j.v. lacrosse but has never run more than four miles, polished off her 16-mile jaunt from Natick to the Prudential Center at the wonderfully joyous pace of 12 minutes a mile...
...Associated Press reported in late March that the Army handed out 8612 medals to reward individual performance. This notwithstanding the fact that the Army only sent about 7000 officers and men on the three-week jaunt. To play "get a medal," the Army showered prizes on planners in the Pentagon, staff and support troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, home of the 82nd Airborne Division, and Army Rangers at Fort Stewart in Georgia and Fort Lewis in Washington state. The brass at the Army's Forces Command in Atlanta also figured in for some silver "attaboys" and other treats...
...summer jaunt to the National Sports Festival settled the dilemma. U.S. officials guaranteed Olympic contracts for Mark Behrend and Bob Mason and Beantown's best suffered a pulled hamstring...
...shortly by the Residential College system at Yale. Edward S. Harkness (Yale Class of 1897) first proposed the mini-college idea to his alma mater in 1926, and promised the necessary funds. He met with agonizing debate and indecision. Two years later he was frustrated enough to make a jaunt up to Cambridge to offer a similar proposal to President A. Lawrence Lowell (Harvard Class of 1877). "It took Mr. Lowell about 10 seconds to accept," writes Samuel Eliot Morrison in his Three Centuries of Harvard. The next April, Yale finally accepted a similar plan, and Harkness funded that...