Word: springing
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...will look this way, I will show you some of its fine points. In the first place, by touching a hidden spring, the cover over the face flies back and discloses the hours all beautifully engraved on a white background. Here, again, you see the hands, three in number and of different sizes. In the three hands you must recognize an especial advantage, for even if two hands get broken you still have one left to show the time; also you cannot fail to see the wisdom of having hands of different sizes, for, to a near-sighted person...
...been raised to three dollars, since it will obviate the disagreeable necessity of assessing the old members every year. As yet nothing definite has been arranged about a meeting with Yale, but the Association is doing all that lies in its power to have the meeting take place next spring on Jarvis Field. We wish the Association every success in the arrangement of this meeting, and assure it of the cordial co-operation of all the students...
...successful issue of our Spring Athletic Sports, as well as the success of our representatives at Mott Haven, cannot but prove most gratifying to every one interested in Harvard Athletics. Our College has now taken a prominent position in track athletics among her sister colleges, and there are many of our records to which we can point with just pride; still we must not rest content with past achievements, but look forward to even greater success in the future. We need but one thing to keep the athletic interest at Harvard as keen as it is now, and that...
...here next year is Mr. F. B. Keene, '80, who took second prize in the Standing High and the Pole Vault, so we may hope for some success next year, too, if the men will train carefully. The results of training were certainly capitally exemplified at our own Spring Meeting, as well as at Mott Haven, and we think that our athletes owe it to the College as well as to themselves to train as well and as carefully next year...
...following list of corrections will have to suffice. To begin with the Table of American College records, we have discovered that Mr. Dick's 1-4 mile record of 53 seconds was not made in College Sports, but in the Keystone Athletic Club Sports in Philadelphia, in the spring of 1877, so that the record cannot stand in the College Table. The best College record for the 1-4 mile, then, falls to E. J. Wendell, of Harvard, with a record of 53 1-2 seconds. Also, the half-mile record credited to Mr. Trumbull of Yale should instead...