Word: paper
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...third cross-country run in the history of the Harvard Athletic Association was successfully held yesterday afternoon. J. L. Coolidge '95 led all the way and came in first by a margin of 45 seconds. Eight men started and followed the paper trail, which had been laid out in the morning. It was the usual cross-country course, about five and one half miles in length, and led up North avenue to the clay pits, where the men lost the trail, taking a different course to Fresh Pond. Circling the pond, the trail went across the fields down the railroad...
Realizing perfectly that the impulse of the reader who comes upon the words "loyal support of the eleven" is to toss his paper aside with some such remark as "the same old drool," we nevertheless once more venture a few words on the subject...
President, Pierre LaRose; vice-president, C. M. Flandrau; secretary and treasurer, L. W. Mott; executive committee, officers ex-officio, and E. H. Warren, A. S. Pier, A. K. Moe, and a correspondent of an outside paper is to be elected at the next meeting...
Natural History Society.The regular meeting of the Natural History Society was held last evening at the rooms in the Society Building. After the transaction of business, President White introduced Dr. C. B. Davenport, who read a paper on "Hybridity in Animals." Following this was an interesting discussion of the subject by the society. The following committee was appointed to look into the matter of holding special meetings, and, in the event of their being held, to superintend them: Kennedy, Sharples, Curtis, Phelps and Walcott...
...what are known as "slow runs." The hares are given a start of about five minutes over the hounds, and after laying a trail of a few miles they designate some spot about half a mile from home as a "break" and mark this by a pile of the paper "scent." The hounds make no pretense to fast running until they reach this point, when the master-of-hounds gives the signal and such of the men as care to do so race over the rest of the couse. In addition to the benefits of the open air exercise, there...