Word: beating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Bemis gets 40 seconds start from the best man at the Athletic Club games in New York to-morrow. He beat the Inter collegiate two mile record Wednesday, by 26 seconds...
...Tech. urges their tug-of-war team to brace this year and beat Harvard...
Whew! "Harvard students held a ratting match several days since for $200 a side. One of the team, from the West, owned a black-and-tan terrier, which he backed to kill fifty rats in thirty minutes. The dog beat the time be ten seconds, and $1000 changed hands. - Exonian...
...such slight importance that it is not worth their while to pay any attention to them. If they condescend to come up and row for the benefit of the class, what more can be looked for? A great deal more is looked for. They are rowing in order to beat Columbia next year at New London, and they can only do that by steady, hard work and strict attention to details. The very first thing a crew has to learn is to keep time. Unless they do this there is no use in their ever going out on the water...
...Simply because he alone of all the crew understands the necessity there is for hard work, and is doing his best to keep them up to their work, and teach them something against their will. It is true that both the Harvard University and freshman crews of last year beat Columbia badly, but they only did it after a year's work of the hardest kind, and not by loafing. As it is Columbia will probably have learned something from her defeat last year, and will put a faster crew than ever on the water, so that the freshmen have...