Word: club
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...CROSSE" club has been started by the Freshmen...
...gentlemen of Mr. Donaldson's club table, at Mrs. Browne's, have subscribed for a handsome prize to be given to the winner of the mile walk next Friday...
PROGRAMME of the Club Races for the Graduates' Cup for sixes, and the races between the Harvard University Boat Club and the Union Boat Club, Charles River Course, Saturday, May 18, 1878. Time...
That Definition. - At a meeting of representatives of Oxford and Cambridge, and the principal boat-clubs in London, held on April 10, the following definition was adopted: "An amateur oarsman or sculler must be an officer of her Majesty's army or navy, or civil service; a member of the liberal professions; or of the universities or public schools; or of any established boat or rowing club not containing mechanics or professionals, and must not have competed in any competition for either stake, or money, or entrance fee, or with or against a professional for any prize, or have ever...
...prizes given in each instance will be handsomer than ever before, and they are worth hard work. Those offered by the kindness of private gentlemen and club tables are made conditional on a given time being equalled or beaten, and that is quite right; if gentlemen subscribe handsome medals or cups, they do so to induce men who do not train for the honor or love of athletics, to train sufficiently at least to make our time creditable and respectable. Were we to criticise the gentlemen at all, it would be rather on account of the generous allowance of time...