Word: potatoes
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...amateurs); regimental mile walk, handicap (open to Second Regiment); 50 yards dash (open to officers of Second Regiment only); half mile roller skating race (open to Second Regiment ). On Saturday night the following events will be contested, all of which are handicaps with the exception of the potato and obstacle races, and all open to amateurs: 440 yards dash; running high jump; one mile walk; potato race; 50 yards dash; putting the shot; mile run; 220 yards hurdle; tug-of-war; obstacle race. The open contests will be under A. A. U. rules, and the handicapping will be done...
...seventh of April by Company A of the twenty-third regiment, there will be ten events open to entries from college men. These events include the following: fifty yards dash, handicap; 220 yards dash, handicap; one mile run, handicap; two mile bicycle, handicap; quarter mile run, handicap; potato race, scratch; one mile walk, handicap; 220 yards hardle; running high jump, the handicap being limited to three inches; intercollegiate tug of war. Gold and silver medals will be awarded as prizes in the contests. In the tug of war, the winning team alone will receive prizes. Yale will send...
...events of the second night will include the one-mile walk, 220-yards hurdle, obstacle race, potato race and quarter-mile...
...speaker grew eloquent as he discussed the unhappy condition of Ireland. The trouble there is not in a bad land system, but in the absence of every industry except. agriculture. She, too, had manufactures once, but England strangled them, when the potato famine came, the effects were terrible. The population had nothing to which they could turn their hands, starvation was the result. The absence of alternative occupation is the true cause of the poverty of Ireland. A country which is without some alternative occupations cannot create them in the face of open competition. Protection, she must have. The lecture...
...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...