Word: one
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fair one did my heart inspire...
...nobly about the race, but is not pleased with the Atlantic's article, which it calls wishy-washy. We agree with the Courant that there is a little hyperbole about the statement that to point out the faults of Yale's method of rowing is "simply to enumerate every one that can exist." In the article "To the Freshmen," the Courant informs them that they are members of the greatest of American institutions. Whew...
...following are considered the best of the twenty-eight English amateurs who have offered to compete in this country. Ball, quarter-mile runner; George, one-mile and four-mile champion; Massey, of the London Athletic Club; Venn, the seven-mile walker; Allan, the short-distance runner; Warburton, a runner; Shaw, the hundred-yards runner; Strachan, of the London Athletic Club, the high-jumper and hurdle-jumper, and Squires, the winner of the thirty-miles walking, and sixty-miles "go-as-you-please" contests...
AUGUST 20th, at the Capitoline Grounds, Brooklyn, in the games of the Putnam Athletic Club, the well-known amateur sprinter, W. C. Wilmer, broke his leg at the finish of the one-hundred-yards race. The ground beyond the end of the sprinting course is a steep embankment, and Wilmer could not stop himself in time to avoid injury. This accident is much to be regretted, as Wilmer will of course be kept off the cinder-path for the rest of the season, and will not be able to compete against the English amateur sprinters who will soon visit...
FELLOW-COMRADES and Fellow-Associates:- Only twelve months ago the oblong beauties which now clasp their hands of grit to raise this magnificent structure, slumbered in their native beds. Behold the stupendous work organized by the financial ability of one, executed and completed by the physical efforts of many, into a glorious edifice. See this spacious hall, those eastward-looking wings, and a dome more lofty and resplendent than that which looked down upon the chains of Regulus! Although no nosce te is emblazoned on the portal, a symbol more expressive than the Delphic inscription stands out in bold relief...