Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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LUNCH at Memorial to-morrow will not begin until a quarter past one o'clock, as an examination will be held there from ten to one. For the same reason there will be no late breakfast...
...WENDELL, '82, won easily the final heats of the 100-yards and quarter mile runs at the Rye A. C. Games on May 31, but as he had not been able to run the trial heats (owing to a dislocation of his elbow and wrist, which the doctor was setting when the trial heats were called), the first medals were both given to the second man, J. H. Rumner, of the Staten Island A. C., the Secretary of the Staten Island A. C., with a knowledge of the above facts, having entered a protest against Mr Wendell for not running...
...QUARTER-MILE...
Behind the quarter of a mile of these interesting sights came the pet of the whole show, - the baby elephant. It was named "Prayers," and was regarded as the spoilt child of the University. Fear-of-Public-Opinion bolstered its tottering steps on one side; rigid penalties - including suspension - performed this graceful office on the other. A choir - of one feeble-voiced, hired youth - walked in front, enticing it on by singing melancholy hymns. Altogether, it was a forlorn-looking creature...
Combes, '81 (Columbia), and Wendell, '82 (Harvard), were the only competitors for the quarter-mile run, and the latter won in 55 1/5 sec., without being pressed...