Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Batchelder, L. S. Thayer was the first to drop out and Batchelder soon followed. Leavitt and Snyder failed at six feet seven and a half inches. Lander fell out at six feet nine. The event was won by Fessenden with a vault of six feet ten and a quarter inches...
...exercise. On Thursdays and Saturday's the men play hand ball in the cage in squads of four, and bat the sand bags. On the other week days the chest weights and dumb bells are used. On Wednesdays all the candidates take a long walk. Every day a fast quarter mile is taken on the track in the gymnasium...
...Baird in Cyclist and Athlete says of the Manhattan A. A. games: "The most remarkable event was the running of Wells of Harvard, in the quarter. He ran the first 300 yards very slowly and finished the race in a long continued spurt which would take Myers to equal, and which would have won him the race but for an unfortunate tumble of the leaders at the finish...
...night the great farce of the season will be produced for the third, would we could say for the last time. At quarter before seven the friends of the college will assemble in front of Sever in their generous hopes of getting seats "before the students come." At seven, or soon after, it is quite likely they will be seated complacently in the pleasant but not commodious lecture room...
...should have first consideration, and Cambridge second. If the seats were reserved for members of the university till within a few minutes of the time for the lecture to begin, the men, women and children of Cambridge would quickly learn that it would not pay them to wait a quarter or half an hour before closed doors in order to get the best seats in the hall. Where Harvard is quite capable of crowding her lecture halls, the aid of Cambridge is certainly unnecessary. If there is room for Cambridge, let Cambridge be welcome; if there is not room...