Word: clays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cinder track at Cornell, it is safe to say that our runners, at least, will never win anything at Mott Haven. Only those accustomed to running on loose cinders can show to advantage on the tracks in New York City. The long heavy stride developed on a hard, firm clay track is totally unsuited to ground that cups at every step. Practice on a cinder track, however, in time develops a short light step eminently adapted to loose ground...
...spies that are sent out by two colleges to note the proficiency and faults of the rival crew; it springs from boyishness more than anything else; it is the act of half-men who a few years earlier were reading dime novels, daubing their cheeks with red clay, and lassoing their elders and betters in the semblance of buffalo, or shooting each other with arrows, in the semblance of red men. The precautions taken by each crew, not to allow the other side to see them at their best, may be confidently set down to man's inborn love...
...Books: Lecky's England in the 18th century, vols. V, and VI,; Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness; Final Memorials of Longfellow; Verses from "Harvard Advocate;" Henry Clay; Obiter Dicta, 2nd series...
...Books: Lecky's England in the 18th century, vols. V, and VI,; Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom Wickedness. Final Memorials of Longfellow; Verses from "Harvard Advocate;" Henry Clay; Obiter Dicta, 2nd series...
...Wednesday afternoon. The senior team allowed '88 and '89 fifteen points each, and '90 twenty points. This handicap was two liberal, and proved too great an obstacle, for the '87 team to overcome. The conditions of the match were 4-men teams, each man to shoot at 25 clay birds, 5 angles, 18 yards rise. The freshmen won handily with a lead of 7 birds. They shot extremely well, and bid fair to prove worthy successors to the graduating '87 team. Appended is the score...