Word: walking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mention only a few. What exercise can be recommended to the hard student? He has, perhaps, no knack for games; the weights and bars are to him as cheerful as a treadmill; he can not afford a horse, even if he knew how to ride. To him a walk is about all there is left. It is cruelty to compel him to do work which he loathes, and he is likely to get little encouragement to learn games that he does not know. On the other hand there are those to whom proficiency in games is an instinct...
...freshman crew. As soon as the foot-ball season is over, most of the men on the eleven will be candidates for the crew. The men have not begun rowing as yet, but go through the exercises on the chest-weights daily, after which they take a five-mile walk, the last mile and a half of which is done on the run. The candidates are very light and there is great need of more and heavier men to come...
...sense of the word, although the high wind prevented the breaking of any records. The best time in the 100 yards dash was made by Sherrill, in 10 2-5 sec. The half-mile handicap was one of the most interesting events of the day, and resulted in a walk-over for your college, the first four men being from Harvard. F. R. Dana won in two minutes and one second. The mile run was another feature of the games and was won by Harvard in 4 m. 53 1-4 sec. The tug-of-war between...
...mile walk was contested by F. E. Zinkeisen, '89, (scratch), J. E. Howe, '91, (40 seconds), S. C. Brackett, '91, (40 seconds), F. W. Burlingham, '91. (1 minute). One minute handicap proved too much for Zinkeisen, who came in about six seconds behind Burlingham. Including his handicap, the latter's time...
...Mile Walk-S. C. Brackett, First; J. E. How second. Time, 8 minutes, 26 1-5 seconds...