Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...quarter-mile run there were four entries, among them Wendell Baker, '86, and W. R. Parry of the Moseley Harriers, England. After rounding the first corner Baker took the lead and maintained it to the end, winning easily, in spite of the efforts of Louis, who came in a fair second. Baker's time was 56 3-4 sec. Considering the sharp turns and the fact that he was not pressed this was good time...
...time during which the gymnasium is open in the evening is certainly short enough; but that almost half of this time should be rendered useless for some exercises, because the gas is not turned up until about a quarter of nine is certainly not a necessary evil...
...winter sports of the Union Amateur Athletic Club, which will be held at the Institute Rink, next Wednesday evening, is larger this year than ever before.-Among the contestants are the following gentlemen from the Harvard Athletic Association; C. H. Atkinson, '85, running high jump; Wendell Baker, '86, quarter mile run; E. A. Thomson, '87, mile run, (handicap.) There will also be a tug-of-war team from the Harvard Law School...
...grouped as the Campus. Here it is simply the "yard," a name quite strange in this sense to the ears of the ordinary collegian. The whole yard now includes about twenty four acres. The first grant was made by the old town and consisted of four and a quarter acres situated where Holworthy, Hollis and Stoughton now stand. From tine to time, down to 1883, when the last purchase was made, various lots of land were added as the requirements and needs of the college in creased. In the earliest times the old town palisades, to keep away the Indians...
...would be interesting to know the amount of beer consumed on this evening. Twelve hundred persons, drinking twelve quarter-liter glasses apiece would give thirty-six liters. This, we do not believe to be an exaggerated estimate. [Brunonian...