Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...take place Saturday evening, January 26, in the Worcester skating rink. With the exception of the half-mile and 600 yards novice race, all the events are open. The track is fourteen laps to the mile with raised corners and the men will have ample opportunity to test their speed. These games will give the runners experience which ought to be of great value in the more important games of the B. A. A. First and second prizes are given in each event. The Harvard entries are as follows...
...seconds for the quarter and was fourth at the intercollegiates last year, coming out from behind the bunch and finishing very strong. Judging from his work last year he is as good as any man Harvard can put for ward 'at present. Orton, the famous distance runner, has hardly speed enough to entitle him to consideration as a first class man in a relay race. The other two men, although they have run before have never been particularly conspicuous...
...first is the material advantage gained by the improvement in the government service; the second is the more ethical advantage of an elevation of public methods and standards. He illustrated the first advantage by reference to the postal system. When we simply wish that letters should be delivered with speed and accuracy, it is obviously absurd to insist that a man should have certain views on tariff or finance. In the second place he pointed out that the offices, given out by political leaders to their henchmen, really formed a vast corruption fund, - that the offices were given...
...debating societies hold their first meeting tonight; and we hope that they may be good meetings. These societies are cultivating, and with no mean speed, an increasing interest in debating. The position which this branch of education formerly held in the University was nothing short of absurd. In a country where good public speakers are a government necessity, and where the number of such speakers is at present distressingly small, it seems beyond comprehension that young men in a position to make themselves good speakers should wholly let slip the opportunity...
...that the college has sent there for some years past. A very light, "sandy" lot of men that do not row in anything like the form of a Harvard or Yale crew. These men are, therefore, not to be judged so much from the way they row as the speed they get out of their boat and the amount of endurance there is in the men. They started the year with but few candidates to pick from and very little coaching, but now they are at New London great improvement is looked...