Word: turns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...makes the scholar, but it is the appreciation, beauty and the refinement of the taste which makes the educated man; and the more opportunities that Harvard College can offer for cultivating the imaginative and a sense of refinement, the better, broader minded, and more thoroughly educated gentlemen will it turn out into the world...
...school boys raced next for the mile interscholastic championship. It was practically a slow race as no one cared to lead. F. Ourish of the Dorchester High School spurted on the last turn and won in 3 m. 31 2-5 s. H. H. Brown, Hale's School, was second, and J. J. Vaughan, C. M. T. S., finished third...
...college news, such as today forms almost the entire matter of the CRIMSON, and secondarily of such matter as today makes up the Monthly and the Advocate. When the CRIMSON was founded the department of college news was no longer open to the Advocate and the Monthly in its turn came in and occupied the field of more serious literary work. It was thus, in a way by no means uncreditable to the Advocate that its contents came to be what they are today. That the style in which the fiction is written should, in the the twenty-sixth anniversary...
...Brewster of Yale then started off mere rapidly, closely followed by Davis and Elliott of Harvard and in the sixth lap Davis spurted and took the lead. He was unable to keep this, however, and on the final stretch both Brewster and Elliot passed him. Just at the last turn however Allen run into Elliot in a spurt, both men were thrown to the ground and Brewster finished first, with Davis a not vary close second. The referee decided that Allen fouled Elliott and that Elliott should go into the finals. The second heat saw a very close fight between...
...concerned - came when the quarter of mile run was won by Sanford of Yale; for Wright of Harvard, had been confidently counted upon to win the event hands down. So be would have, had it not been for the fact that the start was put near the upper turn instead of at the middle of the stretch (as was the case in some of the other runs) and in the excitement of the race, the Harvard men made their finish where they are accustomed to and then slowed down. Sanford, the Yale man, kept pegging along, meanwhile, and before...