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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...carriages or teams will be allowed in the Yard after 12 M., and none will be allowed to stand in the Yard at any time...
...however, becomes apparent upon a little reflection. The prize for the mile-walk was bought with the money subscribed by a club-table, made conditional on eight minutes being equalled. This was the exact time made. An equally handsome cup was offered for the mile-run conditional on 4 m. 55 sec. being made. This time was not made, and the mile cup was provided by the H. A. A. The cup is a very pretty one, but unfortunately it is thrown in the shade by some of the others...
...round trip, good for three days, June 27 - 29, will be sold for $3.50. If a sufficient number of names can be obtained a special train will leave Boston about 7 A.M. on the day of the race, and returning, will leave New London about 7 P. M. A book for the names of those wishing to go on this train will be opened at Bartlett's, and as the special train will be a great convenience to a large number of students, and will place them in a position where they will be independent of New London hotel-keepers...
Yonkers. - The Yonkers (N. Y.) Lyceum held its games on June 7: broad jump, A. McNichol, 19 ft. 4 in.; 100-yards school-boys' race, J. F. Jenkins, 11 1/4 sec.; mile-walk handicap, H. B. Starr, (65 sec.) 8 min. 9 1/4 sec.; 100-yards, M. McFall, 10 1/2 sec.; mile-walk, F. J. Mott, 6 min. 57 1/2 sec.; quarter-mile, C. H. Rowlands, 56 1/4 sec.; two-mile walk, Armstrong...
...M. Nicolas, who has made a literal translation into French, has given a mystical meaning to many of the voluptuous lines of the original; but the English poetical translation by Edward Fitzgerald, which is considered in every way the better, shows the old Persian in the light of an Epicurean and a "Materialist...