Word: beating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About twelve hundred people witnessed the bicycle races in the Institute Fair building in Boston yesterday. The events were well contested; Prince beat the best two-mile American record...
...Wells, president of the Oxford University Athletic Club, England, on Dec. 18, took his Bachelor's degree. Last season he beat W. G. George off the mark at the Exeter sports in a half-mile race, and later on in the University sports he defeated Eyre by eight yards...
...share of the victories. Do not give the impression that Harvard asks not only for this advantage, but for a still further one in that she insists that, if she competes with the smaller colleges at all, it shall be in such a way that they can't possibly beat...
...from the league. Some nine must always be at the foot of the list. But with all respect for Dartmouth and Amherst, it is a patent fact to any Yale man, that games with them fail to be as interesting as those with more formidable rivals, even when they beat us, as Dartmouth did recently, the event is looked at in its bearing upon our winning the championship, and not at all with that feeling of chagrin which must always accompany our defeat at the hands of more prominent opponents." All of which we think will apply equally well...
...first place, the idea of allowing the Yale race to take a place of secondary importance, by making our race with Columbia the principal object of our training, is pure, unadulterated nonsense. It is to beat Yale that we subscribe our money and give up our leisure hours to training. Who ever has thought of the Columbia race as anything but an exceedingly subordinate affair? We believe that we express the true sentiments of the college and university at large when we say that the Yale race should be rowed under any reasonable consideration, and that the Columbia race should...