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Dates: during 1870-1879
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STUDENTS of Rhetoric may well congratulate themselves because, instead of being obliged to glean from the antiquated pages of Campbell and puzzle over the blind theories of Whately, they have all that is valuable in these two writers, and much that is important and fresher brought together in an inviting volume of less than three hundred pages...
...yards hurdles, C. H. White, 19 sec.; 880-yards handicap, G. G. Morrice (50 yards), 55 sec.; high jump, C. H. White, 4 ft. 8 1/2 in.; wide jump, H. B. Greenfield, 18 ft. 7 1/2 in.; throwing cricket ball, H. B. Greenfield, 94 yds. 1 ft.; two-mile walk, R. B. Cator, 19 min. 20 sec.; 150-yards consolation, H. F. Elkington, 16 2/5 sec.; 120-yards hurdles, P. Crawford, 21 1/4 sec.; 440 yards, G. Gordon...
Cambridge University, March 22, Lent Meeting. - 25-mile race, J. F. Darrell (Caius), 1 h. 34 min. 11 sec.; 5-mile handicap, J. E. Howe (Clare) (350 yards), 17 min. 7 sec.; 100-yards slow race, A. Trotter (Trinity), 2 min. 28 sec.; two-mile race, Hon. I. K. Falconer (Trinity), 6 min. 29 sec.; ten-mile race, Hon. I. K. Falconer (Trinity), 34 min. 32 sec.; mile-race, A. Trotter (Trinity), 3 min. 10 sec.; consolation two-mile handicap, G. Sampson (Clare...
...two gentlemen started on a journey from London to York by horse, distance 195 1/4 miles. One of the horses died midway on the road, and the other, after being braced up by twelve bottles of wine, accomplished the journey...
...years in a Western college, and there I grew interested in Chemistry. My teacher was a man of many subjects, who might be classed as a Professor Intelligentiae Generalis. He taught Chemistry, Moral Philosophy, Botany, Geology, and Greek, besides occasionally some other branches when either of the other two professors happened to be ill, and he spent his evenings in reading themes. The college laboratory, too, was in a rather uncertain condition. There was one large room in the building, - the college building was really very fine, and a steel engraving of it was put each year in the catalogue...