Word: walking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...twenty-six chapters the observations of a thorough Nature-lover who turns his back on his comfortable Cambridge home and cheerful back-log fire on many a day, when the lazily-inclined would hesitate about going out, and spends it in studying animal life within a couple of hours' walk of Cambridge...
...common-place, for Dufont, the hero of the tale, has an individuality so strongly marked that he rouses one's interest at the opening of the story. He was a man who "at times looked like a devil that had been chained up by society and taught to walk in the procession, but awkwardly albeit, like a half-trained bear. The interesting question was how long would the chain hold?" The chain did not hold long, and in telling why it did not, and in his description of the development of Dufont's character and of the dramatic scenes...
...mile walk had three entries: A. Whiteside '95, H. W. Thayer '95, E. L. Endicott '94. Endicott (scratch) won in fine form with a time 7 min. 2-5 sec. Thayer (50 sec.) second...
...mile walk. - A. Whiteside '95; T. Parker '95; H. W. Thayer '95; C. L. Norton '95; E. L. Endicott...
...mile walk was made in excellent time, 8 min. 3 secs. Norton took the lead early in the race and succeeded in keeping ahead, though Whiteside braced and gained largely at the finish...