Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seven, and among them is the name of Shearman of Yale. In the half-mile run, Harmar, of Yale, and Dohm, of Princeton, will contest. Princeton will have another representative in Janeway, who has entered for putting the 24-pound shot. Dohm and Robinson will also compete in the quarter-mile run, among almost fifty others. There are forty-four entries for the standing broad jump, thirty-one for the mile walk, twenty-five for the 220-yard hurdle race, and an exceedingly large number for the bicycle races. Twelve tug-of-ar teams have entered, including one from Yale...
...Lincoln College (Oxford University, England) sports, the strangers' handicap at a quarter of a mile was won from scratch by Mr. F. J. K. Cross in 49 2-5 s., the quickest time on record for an Englishman at the distance. The honor of having eclipsed all others at a quarter of a mile belongs to Wendell Baker, formerly of Harvard, whose record of 47 3-4s. made at Beacon Park, Allston, in 1886, remains unbroken...
...much more distant from Boston than is that of today; for a regular line, even of a poorly administered horse railway, which gives you for five cents a car once in five minutes, makes communication much easier than an hour in an omnibus which charged you a quarter of a dollar for each ride...
...announced that for the convenience of students wishing to attend the vesper services, the college bell will be rung twice on Thursday afternoons, once at a quarter before five, for three minutes, and again at 4.55, for five minutes. The services begin precisely at five o'clock...
What the students object to in the present religious regulations, is that they have to get up at a quarter of seven every morning in order to be at eight-o'clock prayers and have to attend Divine service at the college church twice each Sunday...