Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been nothing of especial interest to say of it. The shell will be built on the conventional Waters model, and will be about the same as the boat used last year. It is to be sixty feet in length, twenty-four inches in width, and eight and three-quarter inches deep. Nothing definite is known yet about the rig. One new feature will be tried, however: the tiller lines will be so arranged that the coxswain can grasp the gunwales of the shell and still control the rudder. This will enable him to sit more steadily in the boat...
...Harvard games, March 30. Columbia has great hopes of winning the cup this year. The events which they expect to take and the men they are depending upon are the tug-of-war team; H. Mapes, '92, in one if not both hurdles; Banks, '89, in the quarter-mile; V. Mapes, '91, in the broad jump; Vosburgh, '90, and Hornbostel, '90, in the mile run; Strong, '89, in the half-mile run, and McGuire, '89, in the bicycle race...
...gymnasium contests at Yale Tuesday evening was remarkably large. The tug-of-war between the Yale and Second Regiment teams was unusually exciting. At the end of one minute the mark was even; at two, the Second Regiment had the rope by half an inch; at three, by three-quarters; at four, by one-quarter; the Yale team then made a strong brace, and when time was called, the mark was even. The Yale team was made up as follows: 1, Crall; 2, Veeder; 3, Lowe; anchor, Hanson...
Dohm, '90, champion quarter-mile man of Ireland and America, will be entered at Mott Haven, and besides his regular distance will probably run in the 100-yards dash and in the 220. Janeway, '90, right guard on the foot-ball team, will throw the hammer. Ames, '90, Thompson, '91, and Roddy, '91, will also probably run at the games...
...wrestling with this problem, and it is said that the prevailing opinion among the professors in all departments of the university is favorable to an abbreviation of the college course from four years to three. It has also been pointed out that the prospective financial loss of a quarter of the tuition fees, which would follow if the course is reduced by one year, is the most serious bar to early and courageous action...