Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following are the entries for the intercollegiate contests as far as reported : 100 yards and hurdles, Mitchell, '83; one-quarter-mile run, Wesselhoeft, '84, Carey, S. S., and Edmands, S. S.; half-mile run, Goodwin, '84; one mile run, Trask, '85, and Morison, '83; one mile walk, Herrick and Hoyt, both of '82; bicycle races, Codman, '83; high and broad jump, Soren and Denniston, both of '83, and Biddle, '84; putting the shot and throwing the hammer, Kip, '83, and Follansbee...
...race. The New York Times says of the crews and the race : "They are university men, and their friends have made the event fashionable, and added to this is the tremendous "spurt" which national taste has given to all kinds of out-door sports during the last quarter of a century. It was something like fifty years ago that boat-racing became a feature of university pastimes, and it was distinctly the introduction of Eton boys, who took with them to Oxford and Cambridge this especially popular sport of their youth. The first races on the Cam were "bumping" races...
Yesterday afternoon the balls of Cambridge tolled forth the sad news of the death of Henry W. Longfellow. The poet departed this life at a quarter past three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at his residence on Brattle street. He was born at Portland, Me., Feb. 27, 1807. He prepared himself for college at the public schools of his native city, and entered Bowdoin at the age of fourteen. Having taken the usual course of four years he graduated in 1825, and for some time devoted himself to the study...
...these weapons, excepting when his life is in danger, is a contemptible coward, without a spark of manhood in his breast, and a disgrace to the Anglo-Saxon race. The accomplishment of boxing should be a part of every American boy's education, as much as fencing or quarter-staff was in the days of "Bluff King...
XIII. These articles may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the directors and treasurer, approved by the president, or by a three-quarter vote without his approval. Notice of such proposed change must be published in full in the college papers, at least two weeks before the amendment is voted...