Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yeomans, the champion mile runner of the N. Y. A. A. C., was here on Saturday. He said that their new gymnasium was entirely eclipsed by our own, and that he had no idea that ours was so handsome. He says he considers it the finest gymnasium in America...
...hundred yards. They ran naked, and without shoes, the object being only to win, as time was of no account. The ground was very soft, which made running difficult. The other distances which the Greeks ran were four hundred yards, and the "long race," which was from a mile and a half to three miles. With such soft ground, the strain on the runners must have been fearful, and it was no uncommon thing for them to faint when they reached the end. No trickery of any kind was allowed, as false starts...
Capt. Woodman has received an answer to his letter, challenging the Columbia Freshman Crew to a two mile straight away race at New London. The challenge has been accepted, and the time for the race will be determined upon in the future...
...ordinarily be two stories at the top of the building. Its size may be approximated in the mind of the reader, by learning that the track which is in a balcony like the one in the Hemenway gymnasium, is 21 laps, while the Harvard track measures 17 to the mile. The apparatus for this new gymnasium was prepared under the supervision of Dr. Sargent, and embraces all the essential machines for muscle making. Under this hall, on the third floor, are the lockers, 1024 in number. Connected with these are the toilet and dressing rooms. On the same floor...
...that he cordially agreed with me in what I am about to say. We sympathize fully in regard to the object at which the young gentlemen arm. It is, in our judgment, impolitic, if not unjust, to require attendance at prayers of all undergraduate 8 rooming within a half-mile, or within a quarter mile of the chapel. There ought to be a provision by which students over twenty-one, and the parents of those under twenty-one could obtain release from the requisition. It would give reality to the religious import of attendance. At Antioch a student to whom...