Word: mass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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English 7 Mass...
German 3 Mass...
French 5 Mass...
Natural History 2 Mass...
...best American collegiate record in the quarter-mile run is 50 3/4 seconds, by W. H. Goodwin, Jr., Harvard, at Harvard games, Jarvis Field, Cambridge, Mass., May 24, 1881. We are aware that, in the Yale games, at Hamilton Park, New Haven, Conn., May, 19, 1883, H. S. Brooks, Jr., Yale, ran a quarter-mile in 50.2-5 seconds; but this was on a half-mile trotting-track, measured 3 feet from the pole, and performances made there cannot be accepted as genuine records, in comparison with times made on paths measured in accordance with amateur athletic law. [Spirit...