Word: low
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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MESSRS Stone and Kimball announce the appearance of the new edition of Mr. Bliss Carmen's "Low Tide on the Grand Pre," also "Crumbling Idols," by Hamlin Garland, and "The Robbs Island Wreck and Other Stories," by Lyon R. Meekins...
...many respects Sanders Theatre is very well suited to the production of a Latin play. There is the semicircular orchestra (where the Roman senators sat), the low Roman stage and the handsome permanent back wall with a Latin inscription at the top of it. As in the Roman theatre, too, the seats for the audience are benches, not chairs, and slope up from around the orchestra in wedges with the stairs between. Unfortunately for the present purpose, these benches do not run to the top of the theatre in one tier. The other important difference from the ancient theatre...
...events arranged are: 100 yards dash (7 yds. limit), 220 yds. dash (15 yds. limit), 440 yds. run (30 yds. limit), 880 yds. run (50 yds. limit), one mile run (100 yds. limit), one mile walk (30 sec. limit), 120 yds. high hurdles (8 yds. penalty limit), 220 yds. low hurdles (12 yds. penalty limit), running high jump (8 in. limit), running broad jump (2 ft. 6 in. limit), pole vault (18 in. limit), throwing 16 lb. hammer (no limit), putting 16 lb. shot (6 ft. limit), one mile bicycle race (100 yds. limit), two mile bicycle race...
...these men Merrill won first in the 220 and 440 in the Yale games, Bloss won first in the broad jump in both the Yale and Intercollegiates; Garcelon won first in the Yale games and second at the Intercollegiates in the low hurdles; Wheelwright won second in the Yale games and tied for third in the Intercollegiates in the pole vault; Putnam won third in the Yale games and second at the Intercollegiates in the high jump; Bingham won second in the Yale games and tied for third in the Intercollegiates in the quarter mile; Holmes won third...
President Low has presented to Columbia College a set of eighteen volumes of photographs and plans of German universities. Each volume is about four feet square and is said to have cost $5,000. The German government exhibited the books at the Word's Fair...