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...expensive to make; is more interesting for the spectators; is large enough for bicycle races; the back-stretch is just the length to run 100-yard dashes and hurdle races on, and should be made of extra width with this end in view. Stones should be sunk in the earth to mark the start and finish of the 100-yards; the 220-yards; 120-yards hurdles, with stones to mark the position of each hurdle, quarter-mile, etc. We would also suggest to the Executive Committee that this year they ring a bell in all the longer races when...
Cold is the earth, and cold the flakes above...
...must have had a remarkable mind. He saw through the devices that men invent to conceal the transitory nature of everything on earth, and he resolved to make the most of the present. In this side of character he is thoroughly Horatian. One would fancy he was reading one of the Odes when meeting these lines...
...earth she calleth...
...long as earth shall turn, dear...