Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is, so far, nothing to indicate his proximity to an important seat of learning. The picturesque and forest-clad banks of the Connecticut River are on his right; over a rickety covered bridge he crosses the stream, and then he is in New Hamshire. Less than half a mile farther up a hilly road is Hanover; a store or two, a few conventional wooden dwelling houses and a substantial brick in comprise the village. Then come the college buildings, which are interesting in their way, but by no means beautiful. Their plainness of exterior and interior is indeed depressing...
Nearly every intercollegiate boat-race in this country has been won at the end of the third mile. The result has been a "procession" for the fourth mile, or a desperate attempt on the part of the defeated crew to retrieve themselves. The consequent tendency has been to lessen the interest in college boating, or to endanger the health of the participants from over-exertion and heart-strain. Therefore...
...Mott Haven games this spring there will be more than one bicycle race, as is usually the case; in all probability a one-mile and a two-mile race...
...following events will be contested at the Cornell winter athletic games: Standing high jump, running high jump, single vaulting, double vaulting, high kicking, boxing-heavy and light weights, wrestling-heavy and light weights, fencing, slow race-bicycles, fancy riding-bicycles, parallel bars, horizontal bars, rings, Indian clubs, potato race, mile walk, tug-of-war, climbing rope...
...mile skating race for the championship of America, at Brooklyn, last Friday evening, was easily won by the Norwegian, Alex Paulsen, in 39 minutes 7 1-2 seconds-the best time on record...