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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...following officers of the Hasty Pudding Club have been elected for the next half-year: President, J. T. Bowen; Vice-President, I. T. Burr, Jr.; Secretary, W. Bates; Treasurer, F. C. Martin; Librarian, W. T. Cox; Kp, E. Hale...
...Harvard Club Races. - This year will, it is to be hoped, see the matter of the house clubs definitely settled, one way or the other. They should either be given up altogether, which under the circumstances would seem not only advisable but unavoidable, or some determined effort made to put them on a substantial footing. A return to the system of class races seems probable, if the clubs are given up, and if they can be made races for eight-oars, it will undoubtedly be the best thing that could happen. There are now some five or six eight-oared...
Fast Walking. - On September 14, at the sports of the Scottish-American Athletic Club, F. H. Armstrong in a 3-mile handicap, walking from scratch, covered the distance in 21 min. 17 sec., the fastest record in the world. The best English record is 21 min. 36 sec. by Venn, and the best American hitherto was 22 min. and 9 1/3 sec. by Armstrong. The track used was nine laps to the mile, and with very short corners. At the same meeting, out of five heats in a 75-yard handicap there were three dead-heats, - a silent compliment...
Armstrong. - This splendid amateur walker is to be sent abroad by the Harlem Athletic Club, to compete with English amateurs. Mr. F. J. Mott, of the same club, is also to be sent...
...what is called a boating-man, that is, I saunter down to the club-house every afternoon, select a shell, and try to select an oar - oarful task - from the buttonless, broken-bladed specimens now on exhibition; then I venture out for an hour's pull, returning in time to take a shower-bath, to dress, and to arrive at Memorial Hall about six o'clock. By that time the rare beef has all disappeared, and the waiters are generally hidden behind that mysterious screen where there are so many "evidences of things known, but unseen...