Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yard Dash - The entries were G. B. Cogswell, F. B. Dana and F. B. Lund. Cogswell ran a strong quarter, and won in 52 3-4 seconds, Lund second...
...Quarter Mile...
...honor," part of character is dwarfed. These annual sports at Harrow were very enjoyable. Fine, manly boys, happy as the lark, and perfectly ignorant of the big old fight of life before them. I saw a running match of one hundred yards, one for a quarter of a mile, and a rattling one mile race, by four contestants. Hurdle racing and jumping concluded the first day's exercise. I could not remain the second day, but had sufficient experience at Harrow to urge earnestly the father and mother who read this letter to encourage their boys, by time, money...
...Meyer, '90, Brown, '90, are the most prominent men. Merrill and Mandell have both improved and are doing nearly as fast work as the more experienced Rogers and Lund. Wells, L. S., Hardy, '87, Cogswell, '90, Dana, '88, Griffing, '89, Endicott, '90, Strout, '90, intend to run the quarter, and with the exception of the first two, the half-mile as well. As usual, Wells is the fastest man in the quarter, probably the fastest in any college. In the half there is not yet much choice between the men. Cogswell ran a very fast half last fall. Dudley...
...present style in which it is accomplished, on the ground that it is really a disguised form of running, and very often I agree with them. But it is not so in all cases; and there are many scrupulously fair walkers who can hopelessly beat most times made a quarter of a century ago, even if they cannot equal those made by the semi-runners of the present...