Word: unless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...programme will be as follows, unless circumstances demand a change; 1. 100 yards, trial-heats. 2. Throwing the hammer. 3. One-mile run. 4. 100 yards, second trial-heats. 5. Seven-mile walk (during which will take place running high jump, putting the shot, and running broad jump in the order named). 6. 100 yards, final heat. 7. 440 yards, trial-heats. 8. One-mile walk. 9. 220 yards, trial-heats. 10. Tug of war, trial heats. 11. 120 yards hurdle-race, trial heats. 12. 440 yards, final heat. 13. Three-mile walk (during which will take place pole leaping...
...described in this order: first, color of handkerchief or cap; second, color of trunks or drawers. It is particularly requested that blue and white (together) be not chosen. Dress to consist of shirt and trunks or drawers to the knee. No person will be allowed to compete unless properly attired...
...wish to remind the boat-clubs that Weld is the only crew that goes out regularly, and that an exciting race cannot be had unless all the crews are in pretty equal condition...
...follow the usage of the best literary society we know. New-Englanders boast that, within the radius of ten miles from the Massachusetts State House there is more "cultchar" and education represented than in any other district of its size in the United States. True or not, we must, unless we are insensible alike to ridicule and the calls of duty, conform to the usage of this neighborhood and discard the provincialisms spoken of above...
...time of going to press, on the very eve of the first tournament, few entries have been made at all, and two only for sparring; there seems to be a general lack of interest this year, which is most aggravating, and very hard to account for, unless it be in the undeniable fact that at Harvard we are all fond enough of starting some new thing, but are loath to give any personal effort to help in keeping it alive...