Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editor of Progress relates a doleful experience of his as a college student: "During the brief while that I honored the University of Pennsylvania with my presence as an alleged student, it was the habit of my class and myself to invest every morning, each of us, in a quarter dollar's worth of roasted almonds, to help while away the weary hours of college life. Just before ten A. M., when the chapel bell would call us from the Continental, Girard, and other neighboring billiard saloons (the university was then on Ninth street, above Chestnut,) we would proceed...
...best American collegiate record in the quarter-mile run is 50 3/4 seconds, by W. H. Goodwin, Jr., Harvard, at Harvard games, Jarvis Field, Cambridge, Mass., May 24, 1881. We are aware that, in the Yale games, at Hamilton Park, New Haven, Conn., May, 19, 1883, H. S. Brooks, Jr., Yale, ran a quarter-mile in 50.2-5 seconds; but this was on a half-mile trotting-track, measured 3 feet from the pole, and performances made there cannot be accepted as genuine records, in comparison with times made on paths measured in accordance with amateur athletic law. [Spirit...
...following are some of the records made at St. Paul's School Thursday, which seem to compare quite favorably with college records: 100 yards, 10 1/2; quarter-mile, 53 1/4; half-mile, 2m. 9s.; running high jump, 5 ft., 4 1/2 in.; throwing the hammer...
...championship games of the National Association of Amateur Athletes will take place in New York today. The games will consist of runs at 100 and 220 yards, a quarter, a half, one mile and five miles, one three and seven mile walk, putting the shot, hammer throwing, hurdle race, pole leaping and bicycle races. Brooks of Yale is expected to contest in several of the shorter runs...
...next event was the quarter mile run. This was expected to be the finest race of the day as Brooks of Yale, with the best college record of 50 2-5 seconds, and Goodwin of Harvard, with a record of 50 3/4 seconds, were both entered. To the disappointment of all Brooks did not come to the scratch. Baker of Harvard did not run. Goodwin took the lead but did not run his best until the home stretch, when he drew away from his competitors and crossed the line in 51 1-5 seconds. Hodge of Princeton came second...