Word: faste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then let this fall be made remarkable by a larger number of scratch games than ever, and let the numerous societies and club-tables get their men to work as soon as possible, for the season is fast slipping by, and it will be but a short time before the coming of our gentle Cambridge winter drives us into the gymnasium for existence...
...college sadly needs a yard policeman, whose duty it shall be to look after the yard and fields. The college yard is fast becoming a grand playground for Cambridge infant muckerdom. Exciting bicycle races between ten-year-olders on squeaking, rattling "machines," eliciting shrill yells from their mucker audience, are not soothing to the nervous systems of the inhabitants of ground floor rooms. We all know what a nuisance the muckers are when a concert or anything else is going on in the yard, and how annoying they are when we wish to lie around under the trees in warm...
...apparent ease despite the good rowing of the latter. From the end of the first quarter of a mile it was a procession for Columbia, who gamed steadily until the end, the crew crossing the line more than four lengths ahead in 9 minutes, 43 seconds. This was remarkably fast time, the best on the Thames for two miles, but is explained by the fact that the teed was then running about five miles an hour, and the wind was also favorable...
...start. The weather, which had been very threatening in the morning, became more propitious, and after two gave promise of a perfect afternoon for racing. The wind was mild and blowing down the course and the tide was beginning to run out, both the conditions necessary for fast time, and as the crews were known to be in excellent physical condition people expected to see as fine a race as over was rowed on the American Thames. And they were not disappointed. At hald-past two the Yale men were already in their shell and at the starting flag, near...
...slowly by but surely Yale began to draw ahead so that when the first mile flag was passed they had a lead of somewhat less then a length. But already Harvard was pushing forward and Perkins and his gallant crew steadily forced the bow of their shell forward so fast that at a mile and a half from the start they were ahead and still gaining. It was then the turn of the Harvard supporters to give vent to their enthusiasm, which they did in a series for frantic "rash" and cries of "Harvard ! Harvard !!" until they were hoarse...