Word: walking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boston which are open to all Harvard men and to all amateurs. These games come off on January 23. Entries to be sent to Chas. Wiggin, 93 Green Street, Cambridgeport. The track events are as follows: 75 yards dash, mile run, roller skating race, company team race, mile walk, quarter mile run, half-mile run, 220 yard hurdle. The field events are the following; Running high jump, tug-of-war, 16 lb. shot, pole vault, light weight wrestling, 135 lbs. and under, middle weight to 158 lbs., heavy weight all over...
...boat house is 100 ft. square. The first floor, given up to boating purposes, will have a piazza on the side toward the river and a walk about the other sides. At one end will be the repair shop and a part of the floor will be used for the boats. On the river end will be five departments for the 'varsity and class crews with baths between. The second floor has a balcony on the outside, 800 lockers in the middle with dressing rooms and baths on the sides...
...campus of the new Chicago University will cover four blocks, and will not be more than five minutes walk distant from Lake Michigan...
...religion of Iceland was of all kinds, though most of the people worshiped at the old Germanic shrine. Spirits, evil and good, were supposed to walk the earth. Slowly, as Scandinavia yielded to the influence of Christianity, Iceland followed. While Denmark and Sweden owed their conversion to German missionaries, Norway and Iceland owed it to their own people. Olaf sent the first missionaries to Iceland, and Christianity began its real work there in the year 1000. The erection of churches was left to individuals and not to the State. The priests stood outside of the political life and formed...
...yards run, novice; 70 yards run; 70 yards hurdle race, 3 ft. 6 in. hurdles; 220 yards run; 440 yards run, 1 mile run; 3 mile run; running broad jump; running high jump; pole vault for height; 1 mile walk; one mile safety bicycle race...