Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ninth annual winter games of the Yale Athletic Association were held week before last and were universally pronounced by far the most successful ever given by the association. Three Yale records were broken, the running high jump by one inch, the pole vault by one inch and a quarter, and the high-kick by two inches, the latter being only two inches less than the world's record. The sparring and wrestling contests were a great improvement over those of last year, and the whole meeting reflected great credit on the management and contestants...
...padded and bandaged to three times its natural size, and the hand guarded by a thick leathern gauntlet. Lastly, a pair of spectacles, rimmed with metal, protected the eyes. The schlager, or duelling sword, is then placed in his hand - a nasty looking weapon about a yard and a quarter in length, quite blunt but for about ten inches at the end, where it is double-edged and as sharp as a razor. Thus accoutred, our hero, being the challenging party, walks slowly forward to the middle of the ground, his right arm, which must be terribly heavy, supported...
...yard dash appears to lie between the same men, though S. G. Wells, L. S., Harvard, is also a fast man at this distance. He is expected to take the quarter-mile with A. Coit, '87, of Yale, or J. F. McGuire, '90, second...
Beecher, Yale, '88, the famous quarter-back, has now entirely recovered from his sickness and is attending to his duties at college...
Henry C. Kingsley, for the past quarter of a century treasurer of Yale University, died Sunday morning aged aged 71 years. Mr. Kingsley was a native of New Haven, studied at the Hopkin's grammar school, was graduated from Yale in 1834 and from the Law School in 1837. He was admitted to the bar and became a partner with his brother, G. T. Kingsley, in Cleaveland. In 1852 he retired from the law firm, and became a director in the Pittsburg & Cleveland railroad. In 1862 he was elected treasurer of Yale, which position he he held until his death...