Word: came
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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When healthy and verdant he came into college...
Intent on a race that came off the next...
Namely, Jencks - well, in short, at the home-stretch came last...
...that beyond this nothing else would be done. There have been four men trying for the single-race championship, Le Moyne, '77, Danforth, '77, Harriman, '77, and Denton, L. S. S. In a trial race, one or two weeks ago, in which the first three pulled, Le Moyne, '77, came in first in 15 m. 22 sec.; but the race was given to Harriman, who had 45 sec. allowance for a single-lap. Harriman has since withdrawn. There will be another race in a few days...
...Oxford, twenty-one colleges have boats on the river, and consequently a hundred and sixty-eight men, in addition to the University eight, show their willingness to sacrifice their ease enough to row for their colleges. The races just ended lasted a week, and Brazenose came out at the "head of the river," having bumped University on the first or second night. Of the twenty-one boats only six held their positions without change from first to last. Something of the extent to which rowing is indulged in at Oxford can be realized by reading the account in the Undergraduates...