Word: roote
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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HALF-MILE RUN,for which W. Baker, '86, S. Abbot, '87, T. H. Root, '85, C. F. Brandt, '85, and E. E. Graham, '86, entered. Baker got a good start and immediately took the lead and passed the mark on the first lap in the fast time of 1 minute, but visibly slackened on the last lap and only finished in 2 minutes, 9 seconds, leaving the other competitors 40 yards behind. Brandt and root ran side by side, but Brandt pulled ahead as he passed the tape and came in 2 minutes, 14 seconds. Last of all came...
Half-mile run-S. Abbot, '87; Brandt, '85; Root, '85; E. Graham, '86; Goodwin...
...within an eighth of a second of the collegiate record. In the 100 yards race for '87, Rogers and Todd ran. The event was won by Rogers, time, 10 7-8 seconds. Next came the half-mile run for juniors, which was contested by Brandt and Root. The former dogged Root around the track until within a few rods of the finish, when he ran ahead and won easily in the time of 2 min., 11 and a fraction seconds. The last race runwas a 220 yards, between Hardy and Rogers of the freshman class. Hardy won after...
...mile walk, Bemis and Shattuck, '87; 100 yards, Rogers, Todd, '87; running high jump, Clark, '87; 120 yards hurdle race, S. Abbot, '87; 220 yards dash, Hardy, Rogers, '87; one mile run, W. Austin; quarter-mile run, Hardy, '87; 100 yds. dash, Billings, Johnson, Brandt, '85; half-mile run, Root, Brandt, '85; running broad jump, Fogg, '85; 220 yards, Billings, F. W. White, Johnson, '85; one-mile run, Strong, Davidson, '85; Quarter-mile run, F. W. White, '85; running high jump, Fogg...
Real and Imaginary Effects of Intemperance, by G. Thomann, 200 Worth street, New York. This pamphlet is a decided relief from most works on the subject of intemperance which generally take that vice as the root of all evil. The author takes up in a rational manner such subjects as insanity, explaining the exaggerations of those fanatics who always charge this disease to intemperance and showing that their position is largely a false one. Beer is favorhat their position is largely a false one. Beer is favorably contrasted with distilled liquors by tables of statistics collected from all parts...