Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Garcelon cups for high and low hurdles, and the Wells cup for the quarter-mile run, awarded last year on field day, will not be awarded today. The Wells cup race will be run instead during the interscholastic meet on Saturday, June 4. This will be a handicap race, open to all members of the University...
...river as usual yesterday afternoon. A fair amount of improvement, as a result of the work of the past week, was apparent. The first University, in a mile brush yesterday with the crew of the Union Boat Club, was beaten by about a length and a quarter in an upstream race from the Union Boat, Club to the Harvard Bridge. The time was five minutes flat. In the order of the first, the only change was that Bowditch rowed 7 in place of Duffy, who is sick. The second and third crews took only a very short...
...railroad bridge and finishing at the Union Boat Club. The third crew had a start of five lengths and the second a start of two lengths. The first crew gained steadily and overtook the second at Harvard Bridge, where the third led by about a length. A quarter of a mile below the bridge the first crew overtook the third, with the second half a length behind. From this point the first crew lacked power and a strong drive and hurried the recover. The positions of the boats remained practically unchanged to the finish, the third crew crossing the line...
...race between the Weld and Newell Freshman crews yesterday, over the regular mile and seven-eighths course down-stream, the Weld crew won by about three-quarters of a length. The official time was 10 minutes and 30 seconds. The conditions for the race were most favorable, there being besides the ebb tide, a strong, west wind blowing directly down the course. For the entire distance the race was closely contested, and at no time was there more than a quarter of a length of open water between the boats...
...Classical Department will present the well-known tragedy by Aeschylus entitled "Choephoroe" or "The Libation Pourers," in Sanders Theatre in May, 1905. The parts will be taken entirely by students in the Greek Department, and the stage will be an exact reproduction of a quarter in an ancient Greek city. The costumes, acting and stage properties will also be in exact accordance with the customs of the time of Aeschylus...