Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...short distance runs, 100 yards, 220 yards, and one quarter mile, Baker, '86, R. D. Smith, '86, Wells, '86, Rogers, '87, Wells, '89, Fessenden, '87, Holden, '88, and L. S. Thayer, '88, are in training. Fiske, '86, Porter, '88, and Perry, '89, will train later in the year. In the 1-2 mile and mile runs the candidates are Wells, '89. W. D. Roberts, '85, Dana, '88, Wheeler, '86, A. T. Dudley, '87, Shepard, '88, Quinby, '87, and Ewald, '88. For the hurdle race, 120 yards, are trying Bradley, '86, Lund, '88, Noble, '88, and Rogers...
Finally, I would recommend that the course be six times a week, from quarter of nine to nine every morning. The authorities to be used, are the Herald, the Globe, or the Journal. For those who wish to go deeper into the subject, the Nation had best be consulted once a week. This plan I am sure would please everybody, especially the anti-Chapel agitators, and those who are anxious to do away with the present marking system, for in this course there would be no marks given, or no examinations...
...says, with regard to leaving Harrow for Cambridge University : "When I first went up to college it was a new and heavy-hearted scene for me. I so much disliked leaving Harrow, that it broke my very rest for the last quarter with counting the days that remained...
...Again we are at work in the adored gymnasium, industriously tugging away at the 'pound and a quarter' chest-weights, and swinging 'fourteen ounce' Indian clubs with an absorbing devotion, worthy of so great a cause. All are delighted with our new teacher, and the hour for exercise is hailed with joy. Everyone is exhibiting an interest in her neighbor's muscle, and the girl who can vault is looked upon with wonder and amazement by the majority of the new girls, although by this time they are quite 'old' and worldly-wise...
...average for all is double the amount spent by each of four of them. While it is undoubtedly true that the proportion of rich youth to the whole number is larger than it used to be, and that they spend money more profusely than the rich youth did a quarter of a century ago, the necessary expenses of a college course have certainly not increased in any such ratio. Indeed, of late years the cost of board at New Haven and Cambridge has been reduced, and the co-operative principle has been applied in other ways to the great advantage...