Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Quarter-Mile Race. - Bell, L. S. S.; Livermore, '75; Kittredge, '76; Upham, '77; Danforth, '77; Tower, '77; Sawyer, '77; Dunham, '77; Latham...
...from Oxford two matches out of three; winning in all 32 games out of 42. In the athletic contest the high jump was won by Oxford, the bar being cleared at 5 feet 9 inches. Oxford won the mile race in 4 minutes 34 4/6 seconds; and the quarter-mile in 51 1/2 seconds. In the long jump the Oxford representative cleared 21 feet 1/2 inch. The three-mile race was won by Oxford in 15 minutes 30 2/3 seconds. Can our Athletic Club beat these figures...
...good as usual; still in the high jump the winner cleared the string at 4 feet 11 inches. The time in the 100 yards race was unusually good. This race was also run in heats, and the deciding heat was run in 10 1/4 seconds, - a quarter of a second better than the time at Saratoga, and more than a second better than the performance on Jarvis, last fall. The throwing the cricket-ball was perhaps the best exploit of the two days. The winner threw 103 yards 11 feet. A base-ball can, of course, be thrown easier than...
...history informs us that Cambridge is distant "three miles, one quarter, and sixty rods from the Old State House, by the way of West Boston bridge." We also learn that "from the hilly surface of several parts, and the passage of Charles River through the middle of the town, the air is very pure. Many of the inhabitants have attained great longevity; and invalids from other towns have realized the beneficial effects of a salubrious air from a temporary residence in the town." This was evidently written before the discovery of Miller's River. The alewive fishery in these waters...
...ours, that the study of Political Economy is confounded with that of the Constitution at Harvard, as it appears to be at some other colleges; and that both are studied in the most abstract manner. As our former article appears to have been misunderstood in so high a quarter, it may be well to supplement it with a brief notice of the present scope of the required and elective courses in Political Science at Harvard. On the importance of such studies we will not at present dwell...