Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...family intimately connected with the College, his father and elder brother - both eminent in their respective departments of learning - having borne office here. He was himself prepared for college, and retained through life the scholarly tastes which would have promised success in a literary career. For the last quarter of a century or more he has filled the office of Secretary, and without assistance till his work outgrew the possible capacity of a single hand or brain. It is difficult to estimate the amount and diversity of the demands upon him in conducting confidential correspondence, in the minute and delicate...
...following are considered the best of the twenty-eight English amateurs who have offered to compete in this country. Ball, quarter-mile runner; George, one-mile and four-mile champion; Massey, of the London Athletic Club; Venn, the seven-mile walker; Allan, the short-distance runner; Warburton, a runner; Shaw, the hundred-yards runner; Strachan, of the London Athletic Club, the high-jumper and hurdle-jumper, and Squires, the winner of the thirty-miles walking, and sixty-miles "go-as-you-please" contests...
...Regatta Point, an eighth of a mile from the start, Goddard's supporters began to call on him for a spurt, and he responded with a slightly more rapid stroke, and began to draw away from his rival, whom he led by a length and a half at the quarter-mile stake...
...From the quarter to the half mile Goddard slowed down to 30, while Livingstone still kept rowing 35; but it was evident that even at this rate the Harvard man was clearly getting the best of his opponent. Goddard turned the upper stake three lengths ahead, having rowed the mile in 6.50, and squared for home 10 seconds later...
Handicaps. According to a verbal agreement with the President of the H. A. A., a set of prizes for handicap races will be offered on Friday afternoon, April 29. These races will, we believe, consist of a mile walk, mile run, 100-yards, 120-yards hurdles, and quarter-mile. Particulars and date of entries' closing will be given later...