Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...resulted in giving the captain of the Mott Haven team power to send from one to six men according to his judgment. The events are all to be from the scratch over a turf course. The course will be "straight away" for all events up to and including the quarter. Prizes will be given to the first three men in each event; a silver cup to the first, a gold medal to the second, a silver meda Ito the third...
...that is required, he may do so, with nearly half his class, on not more than $800." Again the author apologizes for making a grade as low as $600, saying that only half-a-dozen men are probably included in it; while Professor Palmer calculates that almost one-quarter of each class spend between $450 and $650. As to the four upper grades, it seems hardly worth while to analyze so closely the expenses of "hardly more than a quarter" of the class, when the other end of the scale is treated in such a cursory review. One column instead...
...between a London crew and Christ Church, Oxford, for $200, in 1828. It was rowed from Westminister to Putney, and won by London by 70 yards. The following year the first race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities took place on Henley Reach, a distance of two miles and a quarter, and was won by Oxford...
...held in Brooklyn on the seventh of April by Company A of the twenty-third regiment, there will be ten events open to entries from college men. These events include the following: fifty yards dash, handicap; 220 yards dash, handicap; one mile run, handicap; two mile bicycle, handicap; quarter mile run, handicap; potato race, scratch; one mile walk, handicap; 220 yards hardle; running high jump, the handicap being limited to three inches; intercollegiate tug of war. Gold and silver medals will be awarded as prizes in the contests. In the tug of war, the winning team alone will receive prizes...
...between '88 and '89 was the last event of the meeting. The victory for '88 was almost a foregone conclusion. In spite of this fact, however, the '89 team pulled very pluckily. The senior team got the drop by one quarter of an inch, and soon pulled away an inch or so more. Balch caught Perry as he came down to heave and the ribbon was six inches on the '88 side. Perry, by skillful handling of the rope and by the plucky work of the team, succeeded in getting back all but an inch. The '88 team, however, pulled...