Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mill-Dam, here again the hares or rather hare, as Mr. Rust had had to give up, thus losing the race to Mr. Harrison as really the hares are supposed to keep together, made many windings till the Mill Dam was again reached. Here the order was given to break for home, Smith, Matthewson and Appleton leading, Norton and Proctor 150 yards behind. Norton caught the front hounds soon, but lost by taking the wrong turning to Allston, but at Allston was leading again, cutting out the pace very fast, he finished first, going very strong at Brighton bridge...
...Claflin, '86, talks of attempting to break the two mile college bicycle record held by C. A. Reed of Columbia...
...certain respects the English universities do a great deal. They bring up their students as cultivated men, who are expected not to break through the restrictions of their political and ecclesiastical party, and, in fact, do not thus break through. In the first place, together with the lively feeling for the beauty and youthful freshness of antiquity, they develop in a high degree a sense for delicacy and precision in writing, which shows itself in the way in which they handle their mother-tongue. In the second place the English universities, like their schools, take greater care of the bodily...
...then went off to one side. Then the freshmen had it all their own way and pushed '86 around the field, circling all around. When the rush was over rings were formed by hard struggling for the wrestling. Here the sophomores were very successful, winning nearly every match. A break for the gate was made by a false alarm...
...said to have been the case at Yale - but we do feel confident that there will be a large enough crowd to give the freshmen all the encouragement they need. We expect them to make a desperate effort to win, remembering that this is their last chance to break the record, so long unbroken, of Yale's freshman victories. Let each man imitate the Yale freshmen and "step to the bat with tightly drawn muscles and determined face," remembering that, although he has not the possession of a fence or his college future in his hands, as was the case...