Word: walkerism
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...whether a fund for the medical education of women would be accepted and used as designed. After a long discussion it was voted to accept a fund, the income of which shall ultimately be used for the medical education of women. The following appointments were confirmed: Gen. Francis A. Walker, university lecturer on the resources of the United States; Alexander McKenzie, D. D., lecturer on biblical theology; G. Stanley Hall, lecturer on pedagogy. It was voted to concur with the president and fellows in their vote authorizing the academic council to accept a year of satisfactory study in Europe...
About one hundred members of the Institute of Technology visited the Globe Theatre last night. Each one had pinned to the lappel of his coat a piece of white cardboard on which were the words. "I am not A. W. Walker." These placards were caused by the speech of Mr. Walker in a previous meeting of the students, in which he declared that it would be no less a disgrace to the Institute than to himself if the students attended the theatre in a body. Ten policemen were stationed among the students to preserve order, but in spite of them...
...proceeds of the sports given in New York last week, to defray Myers's expenses to England, were $1,500. Merrill, the Boston walker, will probably accompany...
...Thompsen (formerly of Harvard, '82) finishing a good second. Thompsen also took second prize in the hammer, with a record of 81 ft. 11 1/2 in.; and in the hop, step, and jump, with 40 ft. 9 in. to his credit. E. E. Merrill, the champion amateur walker of America, at one and three miles, started at scratch in the 2-mile (handicap) walk, but being over-handicapped, as well as out of condition, was only able to finish third. The race was won by Hosmer of the Boston Athletic Club (90 seconds start...
...following are considered the best of the twenty-eight English amateurs who have offered to compete in this country. Ball, quarter-mile runner; George, one-mile and four-mile champion; Massey, of the London Athletic Club; Venn, the seven-mile walker; Allan, the short-distance runner; Warburton, a runner; Shaw, the hundred-yards runner; Strachan, of the London Athletic Club, the high-jumper and hurdle-jumper, and Squires, the winner of the thirty-miles walking, and sixty-miles "go-as-you-please" contests...