Word: eton
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last autumn's sports, but, to tell you frankly, I was surprised as much at the poor records as at the few entries. To think that only two contestants appeared for the half-mile run, for instance, - only two out of a thousand men at your University! Why, at Eton or Harrow or any school here, I am sure there would have been ten times that number, at least half of whom would have beaten that time. Tell me, is it that Harvard men take no interest in athletic games, or that they are lazy? For your papers are always...
...paper, these races are neither an impossible nor an improbable thing. There is no reason why eight-oared shells should not be used, if the men are willing to train. They are used at all the English colleges and by all the English schools, and what school-boys at Eton or Harrow can do, surely men of our College can do, if they will do sufficient training and work together. A reason for the second eight's rolling their shell in the manner described may have been owing to the changes of men and positions in the boat, or lack...
...Eton College, February 22. - The annual race of the school mile was won by the Hon. M. Hawke in 4 min. 49 sec.; W. Thompson won the Junior mile...
...Eton College, England.- Foot-ball is in a flourishing condition...
...though the Freshman at one time almost succeeded in getting a goal, the ball striking against the cross-piece and bounding back. In the second three-quarters '81 in their turn pressed their opponents; but nothing was gained, and the game ended in a draw. The best players were Eton and Nickerson of the Phillips, and Upham, Morse, and Clark of the Freshman Team. A supper was given to the Freshmen by their opponents...