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Expectation is on tip-toe among Mr. Barrett Wendell's many friends, concerning his forthcoming novel, "The Princess Emilia," shortly to be issued by Osgood and Co. It is a story of Roman life, full of dramatic interest.- Globe...
...squad of lacrosse men is at work on the chest-weights in the gymnasium. "Change!" cries the captain. "Oh, never mind the change." answers a voice from toe running track overhead...
...knock at my door, and in walked a broad shouldered, brown-bearded personage, with a burly gait, a deep, bluff voice, and a strong, good-humored countenance. My prophetic soul divined him before he announced his name-it was blaikie himself. My eyes perused him anxiously from top to toe, and my heart was satisfied. Even as he was, and not otherwise, would I have wished him to be. He was not a disappointment, and during the many years of our friendship since that day I have never known him to fall to come up to expectation...
MILE WALK.He started off in beautiful form and by square heel and toe work managed to get over the first lap in 1 minute, 48 seconds. The second lap compelled him to slacken his speed a little, and was walked in 3.45, the third in 5.44, and the fourth in 7.37 1-4, three and a quarter seconds above the Harvard record. Bemis' style of walking is excellent, and he ought by no means to feel discouraged at his failure to break the record, as the rain went far towards slackening his speed. As Bemis finished his last...
Cornell is to introduce a new feature into her spring meeting in a race of the following kind : The whole distance to be covered is 300 yards ; the first 75 yards, walk, (square heel and toe) ; second 75 yards, hop ; third, 75 yards hurdle race (2 feet, 6 inches) ; and last, 75 yards...