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On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics

On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics by Ralph Henry Barbour is available here as the complete text, split into 731 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics by Ralph Henry Barbour. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #45140.

25 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

Academic course · 25 chapters

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On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics

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This edition of On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics by Ralph Henry Barbour carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #45140, divided into 25 chapters and 731 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

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How is On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics divided for reading?

On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics is presented in 25 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 731 sections of 5 sentences each. A section is short enough to hold in mind at once, which suits a reader working in a second language or returning to a long work in short sittings. The sections are gathered into 25 chapters.

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Yes. All 3651 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #45140 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #45140, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 304 minutes of reading across 731 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics

Words and structures a reader meets early in On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Winner
A word that appears in the opening chapter of On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Clerk
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Course
A word that appears in the opening chapter of On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Stuck
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