Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...handicap race around the lower reservoir for the Daniels cup took place Saturday. The distance is one and one-sixth miles. There were four starters, Davis '91 at the scratch, and the others with handicaps of from fifty to two hundred yards. Davis easily passed the other men and won in 3 minutes 19.3 seconds, beating the previous record. Immediately after the race Davis and Cornish made the same distance on a tandem safety in 3 minutes and 23 seconds, which is also a new record...
...bicycle handicap race, open to all amateurs, will be held Nov. 24, at 3 p. m., on the Chestnut Hill reservoir. The distance is once around the lower basin, about 1 1-6 miles, and bicycles must weigh over 34 lbs. The entrance fee of one dollar each will go towards buying the prizes for first and second place. Besides these prizes a medal will be given to the man making the best time from the scratch. Entries must be sent on or before Nov. 22 to Charles P. Daniels, Boston, Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium...
...cane spree resulted in a draw, '91 and '92 each winning a cane and a half. Since this event, class feeling has largely subsided and all apparent animosities between the two lower classes have, for the present at least, been laid aside...
...Probably both Houses, and certainly the lower branch of Congress, would be in political sympathy with the President, obviating the danger of deadlocks and fixing political responsibility on one party.- G. Bradford's "The Practical Working of Our Government...
...something of which we are all proud; it raises the grade of every school in the town; it increases the intelligence of every man, woman and child; and it adds to the money value of our real estate, to descend from the higher standard of worth to the lower...