Word: paces
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next meet of the club will be this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The run will be to Lexington where the club will provide a supper. A moderate pace will be set in order that members who are out of practice may join with the club in this run. Those intend ling to go will please leave their names at my room, 16 Weld. Although the club requires no uniforms, members are requested to provide themselves with the club cap, which they can get at Comus and Fairbanks' No. 407 Washington St., Boston...
...Mill Dam was again reached. Here the order was given to break for home, Smith, Matthewson and Appleton leading, Norton and Proctor 150 yards behind. Norton caught the front hounds soon, but lost by taking the wrong turning to Allston, but at Allston was leading again, cutting out the pace very fast, he finished first, going very strong at Brighton bridge. The time of the hare was 1 hr., 7 m., 55 sec.; Norton 1 hr., 13 m., 24 sec.; Matthewson 1 hr., 13 m., 28 sec.; Smith 1 hr., 13 m., 31 1-2 sec. All the other hounds...
...mile run there were eight contestants, among them Morison, '83, and Walker, '84, from Harvard and Carr, '83, from Yale. Morison immediately took the lead followed closely by the other contestants, but the pace Morison set was too much for the others and by the second lap he had a long lead with the other contestants strung along for a distance of a hundred yards. It was expected that Morison would beat the record but he had a strong wind against him on the home stretch and no contestant was near enough to urge him. He crossed the line...
...Morison, '83, J. B. Walker, '84 and T. H. Root, '85, were entered. Morison at once took the lead and the inside of the track, followed in order by Walker and Root. At the beginning of the fourth lap Root passed Walker. In the fifth lap Morison increased his pace evidently hoping to lower his record, finishing in 4 min. 41 sec., with Walker, who had passed Root in the last half of the last lap, 15 4-5 sec. behind. Considering the strong wind, Mr. Morison's run was better than any of his previous performances...
...list of accessions to the library is unusually full, and shows the rapid pace at which Harvard's collection is growing...