Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Field Meeting of the H. A. A. will take place on Saturday, May 4. The time of day will be made known hereafter...
...carried out and made a fact instead of an idea, it would serve as a great stimulant to athletics. Such races held, say biweekly on Friday afternoons, when there is nothing going on, and for cups of moderate value, would command a large entry, and men who contested each time would soon run themselves into first-class condition, and render the time made at the Spring and Fall Meetings creditable to themselves and to the College. As matters now stand, one or two men are regarded as invincible, simply because they train somewhat, and have speed enough to beat their...
...North being then asked to give some explanations in regard to the form of the challenge which had been sent, stated that it was for an eight-oared three-mile race, time and place to be agreed upon hereafter. Cornell accepted the challenge on condition that the crews should be six-oared, but as Captain North considered a six-oared race "impracticable," and abode by his challenge, this was accepted, after some delay, by the "Cornell Navy," an association understood to correspond to our University Boat-Club...
...time when the lives of great men are held up for our imitation, and their characters are studied as containing the secret of success, it is well to draw a lesson, or two, from the failures of an unsuccessful...
...writing a Sunday-school book. A great many people have crept into literature in this way, but it never was a respectable road, and of late years, since they have begun to write such books by machinery, there is no opening here by young writers. Fortunately about this time Smith began to read the New York Ledger, and soon determined to write instead a sensational novel of the highest order, which should reveal all the wickedness of a great city. To be sure, he had never been in a city; but genius will readily overcome such minor difficulties...