Word: races
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fathers came here to establish religious freedom; fought for political freedom; and sacrificed a million lives for race freedom; we should certainly stand for industrial and social freedom...
...worth while to train a man to fight cases in courts of law? Is it worth while to train a man to perform major operations in surgery? Is it worth while to train a man to wield an oar in a boat race at New London? Is it worth while to train a man to carry a football across an opponent's goal-line...
...reasonable to suppose that, if the Harvard cross-country team had met Yale with an equality of skilled professional coaching, the first six finishers in that race would have been all Yale men? Is it not humiliating that in the meet with Technology, which most of our men entered under the handicap of physical disability, the paid coach of their opponents, after seeing his team to an over-whelming victory, gave, out of the kindness of his heart, counsel as to the well-being of the Harvard team, which he evidently pitied as being sheep without a shepherd...
...other events will be as follows: five-mile run, scratch; invitation 40-yard dash, scratch; invitation putting 12-pound shot, scratch; 40-yard dash, 9-foot limit; 600-yard run, 30-yard limit; 45-yard high hurdle race, 3 flights, 3 feet 6 inches high, 9-foot limit; 1000-yard run, 50-yard limit; one-mile run, 60-yard limit; putting 16-pound shot, 6-foot limit. Competitors must show that they have put the 16-pound shot 38 feet, and high-jumped 5 feet 3 inches in competition, in order to qualify for these events...
Passing from Bolivia to Peru, the traveller notices at once the remains of the ancient race of Incas. "The Stonehenge of America," a curious collection of huge carved boulders, stands in the middle of a great, brown plain. These ruins, much resembling the stonehenge of England, were probably built in the fifteenth century. The method by which these immense rocks were cut to fit into each other so exactly is still a mystery to archaeologists...