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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union. | 1/12/1889 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/9/1889 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Reminiscenses of Fifty Years Ago. | 1/9/1889 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chapel Notes. | 12/20/1888 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trouble at Amherst. | 12/17/1888 | See Source »

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