Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Myers, the American champion runner, won the quarter and half-mile scratch and the half-mile handicap races over competitors from the London Athletic Club and the Mosely Harriers last Saturday at the meeting of the Widnes Athletic Club, near Manchester, England...
...rapid strides which journalism has made during the past quarter of a century, and the large number of college bred men who have entered this profession-for if it be not now a profession, it is fast becoming one-have given rise to much discussion as to the advisability of colleges establishing courses which would have a direct bearing in educating men who intend to make this their life work. It seems to be the universal opinion of practical newspaper men that the only way to get any insight into their profession is by an apprenticeship on a paper...
...MILE RUN.There was a large field of entries for this event, among them being Roberts, Brandt and Root, of Harvard; Smith, Columbia; Faries, '85, U. of P. Roberts took the lead and set the pace for the first quarter at 1m. 7s. During the second lap Roberts and Brandt, who were leading, slowed up, and set a much slower pace, 1m. 22s. This decided the race, for Smith and Faries, not in as good training as our men, but having more speed, were enabled to keep within a short distance of the leader until the last half of the last...
...QUARTER-MILE RUN.This race was practically a walk-over for Wendell Baker, '86, there being no good man to press him. In fact only two others, Griffith, '86, Princeton, and Ellison, '85. U. of P., went in. Baker's time was slow, as he was saying himself for the 220 yards dash. It was 54 2-5 sec., Griffith was a poor second...
...want of funds, and has appealed to the graduates of the college for aid. Several alumni associations have already generously responded, but there yet remains a considerable sum to be collected. The efforts of Mr. Waters will doubtless be successful, should the necessary funds be raised, and the quarter-millennial anniversary of Harvard College will be most fittingly celebrated. It therefore behooves every Harvard man, graduate and undergraduate, to do all in his power to aid in such a laudable undertaking...