Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard graduates may obtain yard tickets from Mr. Jones at Harvard Hall from 2 to 3 p.m. on Friday, June 25th...
...Boston and is a Harvard man, Yale students would do well to "read. mark, and inwardly digest" that one of his many good sayings which states in substance,, "the three cardinal sporting virtues are to put up, pay up, and shut up." Although the final heat of the 100 yard run in the recent inter collegiate games was close, the facts published in our report of the meeting should be accepted as supporting the decision of the judges, and nothing more need be said. But several ardent Yalesains are still perturbed about the matter, and one of them sends...
...already received one of these photographs, sent by an old friend at New Haven, and had studied it carefully. It was taken when the leading men were about 10 yards from the tape, and we are unable to understand what their relative positions at this point in the race has to do with the order in which they crossed the finish line. But if this picture had been taken at the instant the winner breasted the tape, it would have been impossible to learn from it who had won. The instrument stood on the bank at the extreme outside edge...
...camera seen nothing and records nothing which the human eye, placed it in the same position, would not see; and no man, standing where the instrument stood, could have known who won. A man five yards in front or behind the finish-line frequently thinks the race won by a runner who was a full yard behind. A man 20 or 25 yards away knows nothing at all about a close finish, and the camera knows no more than the man. The writer of this article sat five yards behind the finish line, and thought Sherrill...
...BURBANK.CLASS DAY TICKETS. Yard tickets will be distributed to members of the sophomore class on Tuesday, June 22d. by Mr. Jones, at Harvard Hall, between...