Word: eights
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshmen were out in an eight on Tuesday and showed great improvement; hereafter they will go out every day in the University's barge...
...object is a deserving one. The programme is as follows: Heavy dumbbells; picking up heavy weights; putting the shot; three-legged race; one-mile walk; pulling up, one and two arms; half-mile run; hitch-and-kick; sack-race; horizontal bar; foil and broadsword fencing; tumbling; rowing eight oars; single and double somersaults; hurdle-racing; potato-race; tug of war; three-mile walk; standing and running high jump, etc. Further particulars can be obtained from General Lister, who has been requested to act as referee...
...expostulate, not illnaturedly I hope, on a kind of Athletics that seems to be gaining ground very fast at Harvard. I mean to say Lawn Tennis. There are now four clubs, and perhaps five, that have come into existence here this year. These clubs are generally composed of eight members each; that is, we have now at Harvard from thirty to forty men who devote their leisure hours to Lawn Tennis. Many of these men were formerly seen on the river, forming part of the club fours and sixes; now they have deserted these posts, where as much energy...
...Boston and vicinity. The Union Boat Club will send at least one competitor for the single-scull race on May 11. The Secretary also writes that, in all probability, a four-oar will be entered by the Union to row with our four picked from the University second eight. The boat-club of the Young Men's Christian Association is unable, at its present stage of organization, to accept the challenge, but we understand that this rowing club will be glad to join the regatta if their plans are sufficiently advanced and the necessary arrangements made a few weeks before...
...yards), 12 sec.; wide jump, E. Baddeley, Jesus, 20 ft. 8 in. S. Palmer jumped 21 ft. 7 in., but was ruled out because he fell behind his mark on alighting. 120-yards hurdle handicap, W. Collier, Jesus (5 yards), 18 2/5 sec. S. Palmer, whose mark was eight yards behind scratch, was only beaten a foot. Quarter-mile open handicap, final heat, W. Westmacott, Exeter, Oxford (20 yards), 50 2/6 sec.; 3-mile handicap, B.G. Parkin, Queen's (180 yards...