Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be constructed in a year or two, concerns Harvard in more ways than one. The value to the college of having this new route to Boston needs no explanation. The sooner the bridge is completed the better. But the fact that the bridge was to cross the two-mile course, used by the Union and Harvard boat clubs, for a while threatened to impair the boating facilities hitherto enjoyed by our various crews. Arrangements have at last been made, however, by the Union Boat Club, whereby the bridge will be so constructed that it will injure the present course...
...fertilized plants are Indian Corn, Poplar and Maple trees, etc. In the case of corn the so-called "silk" is the pistal, and the pollen on the "tassel" is shaken off by the wind and conveyed to the ears, thus fertilizing them. Pollen is often carried for half a mile in this...
...sixth time by Harvard, was brought out by President Smith. He announced the contestants who had aided in winning the victory at the Polo Grounds as follows: First prizes, the tug-of-war team, - Easton, Curtis, Remington and Pease; Wendell Baker in the 2.20 yard dash and quarter-mile run; Bradley in the running broad jump. Second prizes were won by D. C. Clark, in putting the shot, Gibson in throwing the hammer, Dean in the bicycle race, Fogg in the running broad jump, and Bemis in the mile walk. The cup was first awarded by the Inter-collegiate Athletic...
...alarm of fire from box 78 at 10.50 last night brought more than half the men in college to Fresh Pond. Those who took the two mile run over fields, fences, ditches, and barbed wire, were well repaid for their trouble by one of the grandest sights that has been seen around Cambridge for a long time. For over an hour four large ice houses were a mass of flames. There was no ice in the buildings, but there was a quantity of sawdust which added to the brilliancy of the conflagration...
...Thursdays and Saturday's the men play hand ball in the cage in squads of four, and bat the sand bags. On the other week days the chest weights and dumb bells are used. On Wednesdays all the candidates take a long walk. Every day a fast quarter mile is taken on the track in the gymnasium...