Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pity that there are some men in college who cannot learn the common courtesies of life. We have been informed that a short time ago two freshmen took possession of one of the double courts on Holmes Field at two o'clock in the afternoon. Several times during the afternoon they left the court, fastening a racquet to the net as a token of possession, and amused themselves by watching the base-ball game. Several men were waiting for a court, but were evidently too courteous to take the one in question. This sort of thing continued until...
Last Wednesday afternoon, at New Haven, W. G. Lane, Yale '88, ran three miles against time and broke two records, the American amateur record for 1 1-4 miles and for three miles. The time was as follows: Half-mile, 2.27; mile, 4.59; one and a quarter miles, 6.18 1-5; two miles, 10.21; two and a half miles, 13.00; three miles, 15.41 1-5, beating the record of 15.55 1-5, by Harmar, Yale...
...will be photographed at Pach's, Friday, at one o'clock. As Mr. Tupper has several engagements that afternoon, members will exert themselves to be exactly on time...
...Academy at Quincy, with a score of 10 runs to 3. Richardson and Fitzhugh composed the CRIMSON battery and proved very effective. The Adams Academy boys played a good fielding game but were weak at the bat. The CRIMSON nine received very hospitable treatment and felt repaid for the time spent on the trip...
...Henry James is such a powerful writer that I take great delight in reading his works. He has given up his pottering of years past and has become more finished, light, but yet powerful. Time was when I thought Howells was in the lead, but I think James has beaten him altogether. Howells has made a formula and swallowed it, and it has stuck to him. James looks at the world instead of a swinging black ball of geometrical proportions. Still, I think Howells will change his ideas. He seems too clever a man to stick to them. The recent...