Word: strides
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...patronage which an open-air gymnasium will receive. The list includes chest weights, high and low pulleys, balance swings, breast bars, set, standing and double swings, plain ropes, rope ladders, crossrope ladder, rings, single trapeze, long plain ropes, standing and inclined ladders, climbing, slanting, and standing poles, giant stride, quoits, vaulting poles, hammers, shots and heavy weights for "throwing" and "putting." The idea is a progressive one, and deserves the success it will doubtless meet...
...removed. Until there is a cinder track at Cornell, it is safe to say that our runners, at least, will never win anything at Mott Haven. Only those accustomed to running on loose cinders can show to advantage on the tracks in New York City. The long heavy stride developed on a hard, firm clay track is totally unsuited to ground that cups at every step. Practice on a cinder track, however, in time develops a short light step eminently adapted to loose ground...
...also said that "Flying Childers" ran 1-2 mile in 20 sec. His stride or leap was measured and found to be a trifle over thirty feet. He was never known to cover less that 25 ft. at every stride...
...report on the subject of a conference which has finally been adopted by the faculty, and which will go into force next year, is in keeping with the conservative liberality which is characteristic of Harvard. While it is not a long stride to the end which many students sincerely hope for, yet it is a careful step forward. The conference which will be established is, it is true, merely advisory, but notwithstanding this fact, there are many benefits that can be devised from it. The recognition of the sentiment of free debate on all college subjects, and open, free conference...
...munificent generosity on the part of the athletic association. This magnanimous association, after mature deliberation, has decided to give away the programmes for the winter sports, instead of charging, as heretofore, the five coppers at which these printed cards were rated. This is surely a giant stride in the right direction,- all the more gratifying at the present crisis when the course of the university seems to be backward. The prayer petition refused, Greek downtrodden, foot ball abolished,- at such a time, what a relief to find one body of men so alive to the interests of the hour...