Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Madison Square Garden last Saturday, Stead, '91, won the 440 yards dash from 15 yards mark in 54 seconds. The prize was a $150 stop watch. J. P. Lee, '91, was scratch in the 75 yards dash with 112 entries and won his first heat in the fastest time-8 1-5 seconds-of any first trial. He was also scratch in 220-yards with over fifty entries, and was third in final heat...
...fact. Mr. Marsh has resigned his position and will go abroad to study for two years on a full salary. He graduated here in 1883 and is under thirty years of age. He is said to be a man of great ability and was at one time thought of for the presidency of the Kansas University...
...last number of the Auburn was an article by Walter C. Camp on football. Mr. Camp traces the growth or evolution of the game until the time when Harvard carried out the idea of learning to play under the Rugby rules, and contesting with the Canadian teams which played by those rules. Then followed Harvard's effort to introduce this game in the other colleges, and particularly in Yale. Much opposition was met; but "in 1874 Yale began to yield, and in the following year her delegates met those from Harvard, and, after a stormy session, a combination was effected...
...junior class meeting was held last evening in Upper Massachusetts. About forty men were present. The meeting was opened with President Dexter in the chair and the class immediately proceeded with the business of the class dinner, to be held some time the last of February. Messrs. W. H. Dame, F. C. Cobb and P. C. Stewart were elected a committee to make all arrangements for the dinner, and to select the speakers. Mr. T. W. Slocum was elected to fill the position of toastmaster. After the above elections the meeting was adjourned...
...Lands of Eastern Oregon will be visited on this trip. The country is somewhat mountainous, covered with sage brush, and will afford good shooting to any members of the party who wish to stay until October. It is intended to start on Commencement night and to return in time for the opening of the college in September...