Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Baker, '86, will run an exhibition 3-8-mile race to-day at the freshman meeting, and endeavor to break the record in that event...
...Hill and through the back yards of "Goatville." Passing out from that delightful quarter the hounds were speeded on their way by the youthful portion of the population. College Hill and Tufts College were passed at a round pace, and then all came across to upper North Avenue. The break was made about three-fourths of a mile from home at a point near Linnaen street. The first hound in, Bailey, '88, was fifteen minutes behind the hares, who thus won easily. Bailey, Dana and Dudley receive prizes. Lothrop, '87, was second, and Wheeler, '86, third hound...
...number and led by J. S. Russell, '87, master of the hunt, started after them. The course lay through Norton's Woods, across North Avenue, through the brick yards, up the Fitchburg railroad to the water works at Fresh Pond, thence to Brattle Street, opposite Elmwood. There a break was made for home at a very hot pace, Bailey, '88 led till close to the finish when he was passed by Dana of the same class who took first place, Bailey coming in second, and Lothrop, '87 third. The leaders gained three minutes on the hares who thereby lose...
...cheers for the freshmen, who doff their hats and move on to the junior fence, where the same scenes are repeated. As they round the corner of Elm street and halt opposite the sophomore fence, their impatience increases, and scarcely has the final cheer been given when the word "Break ranks," is heard, and an indiscriminate rush for their precious fence ensues; the first, in their eagerness to sit upon the coveted fence are thrown pell-mell over the other side, and a struggling mass contests for the honor of being the first seated, fully five minutes elapsing before order...
...success at New London. Let the crew remember that it is on the water that Harvard has ever looked for success with the greatest confidence, and that defeat there is felt most grievously. The college bids you good by, and hopes and believes that you will not break the long series of victories which have this year come to Harvard...