Word: lay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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HALF-MILE RUNfollowed and proved a close and exciting race. The contestants numbered about a dozen, among them being Goodwin, Brandt and Root. The race for first place lay between smith of Columbia, and Goodwin. Smith pressed the latter until within about twenty yards of the finish, when Goodwin broke away and won by a considerable lead. Brandt came in after Smith a good third. The time made by the winner...
...fifty-first annual convention of the Psi Upsilon fraternity will be held at Cornell, next week. An elaborate program has been prepared. Charles Dudley Warner will lay the cornerstone of the new hall of Chi chapter. Professor W. W. Goodwin, orator; Professor Goodwin Smith, essayist; Professor Alpheus S. Hardy, poet; and the Hon. Francis M. Finch, author of "The Blue and the Gray," ode-writer. Judge Albion W. Tourgee will preside at the banquet...
...Harvard, the sophomore class met at the Quincy House last Friday evening to dine together. At eight o'clock the class marched to the dining ball, which presented a very attractive sight, its new decorations being well shown by the brilliantly lighted chandeliers. At each of the 125 plates lay a neat menu card and a book of songs, printed especially for the occasion. When the cigars were lighted, President Barnes arose and introduced Mr. Sanborn, the poet of the evening, whose lines were received with applause. Mr. R. D. Smith then gave the oration, which brought down the house...
...teams, after a short rest, played the remaining seven minutes of the half without anything being scored by either side, although the advantage lay rather with Harvard, now strengthened by the presence of Henry, who materially aided the forward field. Time was called for ten minutes, and then the men set to work for another half hour. The ball was worked down towards our goal and by a pretty pass from Simpson to Nichols, the latter scored a goal at the end of three minutes, the quickest of the game. Sides were changed at once, and the ball went back...
...regulates itself. In colleges where the authorities undertake to control the time of the students, the latter will be allowed to devote only so much time to athletic sports as in the judgement of the authorities can be devoted profitably. In colleges where the students are left to lay out their own time, if their studies are neglected because of too great attention to athletics, they alone are to blame, just as they alone are to blame if they give too much time to card-playing or to the theatre, or to many other attractions that-innocent in themselves...