Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The total amount which has been paid in for building the new track is $3350,50. This money has been collected from the different classes as follows...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: On Saturday evening, between 7.30 and 8 o'clock, a large number of small muckers amused themselves by setting off fireworks in the yard, and larger specimens of the same species used the yard as a bicycle riding track. The college authorities should enforce the privileges of private property by appointing an officer whose duty shall be to keep the yard free from obnoxious intruders. If the crowd of the "unwashed" who now frequent the yard were made to understand that they were, like beggars and pedlars, in danger of being "given in charge to the police...
...Harvard, at Harvard games, Jarvis Field, Cambridge, Mass., May 24, 1881. We are aware that, in the Yale games, at Hamilton Park, New Haven, Conn., May, 19, 1883, H. S. Brooks, Jr., Yale, ran a quarter-mile in 50.2-5 seconds; but this was on a half-mile trotting-track, measured 3 feet from the pole, and performances made there cannot be accepted as genuine records, in comparison with times made on paths measured in accordance with amateur athletic law. [Spirit...
With the exception of the breeze which was strong enough to mutually keep down the records in the runs, the weather in New York on Saturday could hardly have been better for the sports. The track was in very fair condition and the arrangements were in many ways better than last year's. The attendance was good and the interest in the events was intense...
...HERALD: It seems to me that the vexed matter of a fence around the new athletic grounds might be arranged by a compromise. Every unprejudiced student will admit, I think, that the faculty have some strong arguments on their side of the question; besides, the fence built near the track, as it will have to be, will not be an unqualified benefit, as every ball player who has climbed a fence after a ball knows...