Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...regular annual meeting of the Reading-Room Association will take place in Massachusetts Lower Hall on Tuesday, June 20, at 5 P. M. The object of the meeting is to elect officers for next year, and to transact other important business. A full attendance is desired...
...they started, and Mr. H. W. Cushing took the lead, followed by Messrs. James, L. Cushing, and Holmes, in the order named. The first quarter was made in 1.27, the men passing the line in the same order as at the start, with the exception that Holmes gained third place; at the half-mile Holmes took the lead, making it in 2.59, and this order was kept until the end, the three quarters being got over in 4.26, and Holmes came in first on the last quarter, winning the race in 5.35, being 32 1/2 seconds longer than...
...three-mile race did not take place, there being only one entry, Mr. C. G. James, '79. The 120-yards hurdle-race, which stood next, was won by Mr. A. H. Latham, '77, over Mr. A. L. Rives, L. S., in 19 3/4 sec., gaining a second on the time at the last meeting...
...mistakes which a glance at any official publication would have remedied at once. In the first editorial the new theatre of Memorial Hall is referred to once as "Sanders's Theatre," and once as the "Theatrum." The first name would lead one to suppose that it was a place of public entertainment, where the performances were presumably of a variety character; the last that the word theatre was unknown in our language, pretty much as campus suggests the idea that its pedantic inventors were ignorant of the good old English yard. The facts of the case are, that Mr. Charles...
...their eyes knocked out, or their teeth punched down their throat. Some men, when they go in a saloon, do not get drunk, but gamble and lose all of their money. It would be better for them to stay at home; for the bar-room is the place...