Word: landed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This being the fact the question arise, how large a proportion of young men in the land systematically practice athletics? Probably less than one per cent. How large a proportion of those who are members of athletic clubs take an active part in the sports patronized by their respective clubs? Probably less than ten per cent. The cause of this want of interest in athletics is, doubtless, an increasing tendency to pursue sport as an end in itself rather than as a means...
Dartmouth has purchased land on which she proposes to erect a building for the exclusive use of her base ball nine...
Report of Commissioners of Immigration of Dakota, 1886-7; Lalors and Appleton's Cyclopedias (as above); Land Grant Acts...
...movement is on foot to build a State University for colored people in Montgomery, Ala. The city has given $5,000 and three acres of land to the institution...
...just 5.37 the word "Go" was given, and the boats were off. The start was very even, Harvard having a slight advantage. Before the quarter mile was reached, however, Columbia had caught up with her rivals, and urged on by the frantic cheers of their supporters on land and water, the two boats flew down the river. At this point, Harvard was rowing 35 and Columbia 38 strokes to the minute...