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...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...
...Jones, the college bellman, remarks that '88's class election was the best conducted, the most orderly, the most gentlemanly, and the quickest in his long experience. General good feeling was the distinguishing characteristic...
...forward field. Time was called for ten minutes, and then the men set to work for another half hour. The ball was worked down towards our goal and by a pretty pass from Simpson to Nichols, the latter scored a goal at the end of three minutes, the quickest of the game. Sides were changed at once, and the ball went back and forth with great rapidity, Henry doing some lively work in the forward field, while several of the Americans did some fast running and beautiful passing. Luck was against Harvard, for at the end of eleven minutes...
...steamer Columbia, Anchor line, made a run of 17 1/2 days from Palermo to Boston. This is the quickest run that has been made yet between Boston and Sicily...
...recess would be putting too heavy a burden upon those who remained. The weekly pay-roll is about $1,600, and at least three hundred members are required to meet running expenses. In the light of these facts it appears that the plan adopted is after all the quickest in operation, and at the same time the "easiest and most nearly just...