Word: run
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...nothing would be wanting to insure their education in the best school; but this is undoubtedly impracticable, and English works on rowing must be resorted to. The men might be forced to select a coach from their own number, but this would be much better than to run the risk of having their stroke ruined by a Harvard...
...same day and at the same place as the University race, and in case this challenge is accepted, the candidates will leave the College gymnasium, where they are now at work from half after four until half after five each afternoon, for the boat-house gymnasium. The candidates run three nights in the week...
...following are the times in the athletic sports: mile walk, 8 min. 2 1/4 sec.; quarter-mile run, 55 sec.; mile run, 5 min. 12 1/2 sec.; 100-yard dash, 11 1/6 sec.; three-mile walk, 25 min. 48 sec.; half-mile run...
...game of hare and hounds at Rugby, October 20, there were two hares and twenty-five bounds, of whom fifteen came in, most of them before the hares. The extent of the run is fixed before the game begins, and the hares run to a definite point...
...elective system presupposes that the student is an adult able to take care of himself and responsible for his own conduct in the same way and to the same extent as any other citizen." Now, inasmuch as the ordinary citizen is not compelled, early in the morning, to "run and worship God" on week-days; nor on Sundays to "attend morning service and remain during the entire service," the World fails to see why we Harvard citizens should be obliged to do so. It blames particularly Emerson for "coming down from Concord to oppose a motion for the discontinuance...