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Word: yards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...HERRICK, '77, came in second in the one-hundred-yard dash at the Intercollegiate contests. The winning time was 10 1/2 seconds, and Mr. Herrick came in three tenths of a second later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 9/27/1877 | See Source »

...hundred-and-twenty-yard dash, won by the University of Pennsylvania; time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miscellaneous. | 9/27/1877 | See Source »

...Hundred-yard dash, won by the University of Pennsylvania; time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miscellaneous. | 9/27/1877 | See Source »

...especially the difficulty of getting out. What was to be done if after a man got into college he could not get out? He was afraid if the present tests were applied to the alumni, many would long remain within the classic shades. The emerald green of the College Yard, from the old President's house to the remotest corner of the delta, would soon be whitened with the bones of the alumni who died in ineffectual struggles to effect their escape from the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTRACTS FROM SPEECHES AT THE ALUMNI DINNER. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...blindness as to the necessity of such a summary step, and venture to say that probably the College would not be to-day under the necessity of repairing the burnt shed behind the Scientific School had it not been for the number of obnoxious policemen with which the Yard was crowded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

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