Word: placing
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...place for everything, and everything in its place.' A man at Yale nails his slippers on the wall four feet up, and then all he has to do of an evening is to wheel up his easy-chair in front of them and pull out his meerschaum." - Amherst Student...
ALTHOUGH most of the members of Natural History 4 have voluntary recitations, yet the room is so crowded that some have to stand up during the lecture. The professor has asked the College for chairs to place in the aisles, but so far none have been furnished...
...Honors List of the University of London's matriculation examination the first name is that of a young lady; and at Cambridge another young lady, Miss Scott, answered papers set for the mathematical tripos in a manner that would entitle her to the eighth place on the list of wranglers...
...time on record in America (6 min. 41 1/4 sec.), thereby distancing all his competitors. This third successive victory gave him the $200 silver cup for his own property. On January 31 he started at scratch in the five-mile handicap, and although unable to obtain better than second place on account of the excessive handicaps given, he still succeeded in bettering his own time for one and two miles, and also in adding to his score three more "best on records," - for 3 miles, 4 miles, and 5 miles respectively. His record at each distance is appended below...
...VOORHEES, the well-known sprinter, has improved so much during the past winter, that competent judges are led to believe that he will be the third amateur to place a 100-yard record of 10 seconds to his credit before the spring season ends. Those Harvard men who happened to be present at the Columbia Boat Club sports of January 3 and 4 will doubtless remember that Mr. Voorhees, with a handicap of 2 yards, won the 75-yard dash for college men in 7 1/5 seconds...