Word: club
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ABOUT twenty-five bicyclists met in Holden Chapel last evening for the purpose of organizing a club. The whole number of men in college who own machines is somewhat over thirty, so there were quite a number who were not present...
...follows: President, W. G. Twombley, '79; Captain, M. Tilden, '81; Sub-Captain, C. A. Parker, '80; Secretary and Treasurer, R. C. Sturgis, '81. The officers were empowered to choose an Executive Committee of five, who are to have full power to settle all matters in regard to the club. This Committee is also to draw up a Constitution and present it at a meeting to be held some time next week...
...understand that several gentlemen contemplate a journey to New York to participate in the sports of the Columbia Athletic Club. We give them our best wishes for their success. Two events have been added since the programme was published, - a tug-of-war between picked teams from the crew of the steamer City of Chester, of the Inman Line, and a chase by the Columbia College Hare and Hounds Club in full uniform. The four-mile walk (go as you please) promises to be the great event of the occasion. The entries from Columbia have been very large...
BICYCLING.It is earnestly to be hoped that the report of the forming of a University Bicycle Club was not all rumor. On Fast Day the Massachusetts, Boston, and Suffolk Clubs unite in a "meet," to which they invite all bicyclists in the State. The rendezvous will be at Trinity Church, and the hour 10 o'clock. The unattached riders will be taken under the escort of sub-captains from the three clubs, that there may be no delay or confusion. After circling the square once, the riders will proceed over the Milldam to Chestnut Hill, and after reaching that point...
...WHEN the club system was abandoned last fall, the Executive Committee was instructed to provide some other system, and the property of the clubs was handed over to it to be used for the best advantage of boating. Since class races in eights have been arranged for, the club boats are left idle, and the Committee has ordered that several boats of each kind be put into first-rate order for the use of those who wish to go on the river, and who are not on the class crews...