Word: stopping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hold its meeting on Saturday night, is admirably fitted for athletic games. The floor is about one hundred and ten yards long and is without a post, the roof being supported entirely by trusses. There is room enough for the straightaway seventy-five yards, without making the stop incoveniently sudden. The track for the longer runs is one-ninth of a mile in circumference. It now consists merely of the section of flooring which is marked off at either end by a curved strip of black paint, but planking will be set up to mark clearly to the runner...
...dirt floor of the baseball cage is now carefully raked and rolled every morning. A netting back-stop has been put up and the wall at the pitcher's end has been white-washed...
...examinations. Of the twenty-three men who have signed thus far, about one-half are pitchers or catchers, and these meet Clarkson every afternoon at appointed times in the Carey Building. The dirt floor of the cage has been spaded to get rid of the frost, and a back-stop of netting has recently been...
...greatly increase the facility for doing good work. At either end of the long board walk, extending from the gymnasium to the east corner of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, curved extensions are to be placed so that sprinters may run any distance back and forth without being compelled to stop. These curved extensions will be of board to correspond with the present plank walk. Five times down and back the walk and around the curves will make a mile-so that not only the sprinters but the long-distance men will profit by it. The course will be laid within...
...good work which the clubs can do does not stop here. In the West Harvard is misunderstood. An unsympathetic, and often prejudiced, press has done much to create an entirely false notion of Harvard men and of the college which they represent. The members of the clubs can do a great deal to dissipate this illusion, and to convince people that Harvard students are thoroughly manly, and their college the most liberal and progressive of American universities...