Word: fastings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of the threatening weather, an audience of between 50 and 75 saw Baker break the 220 yards record yesterday afternoon. The track at Beacon Park was chosen for the race, because it has a 220 yards straight-a-way. It has the representation of being an exceptionally fast track, but in spite of the broken records yesterday, it was in poor condition. The rain had formed a thin layer of mud on the top, and even when this was scraped off, the track was dead and without its usual spring. To make the record beyond dispute, four well known...
...successful meeting held by the Yale Bicycle Club last week, brings more forcibly to mind the condition of bicycling at Harvard. Two years ago the Harvard Bicycle Club held a meeting which, from the large number of entries of prominent amateur wheelmen, and the fast time made, was extremely interesting, and showed the activity of the club. If we remember rightly, the amateur record for one mile was broken at this meeting. Unfortunately for the interests of bicycling in college, the faculty after this forbade the club to hold bicycle races in the future, although all the competitors at this...
Williams, '85, is fast recovering from water on the knee, with which he has been troubled for some time...
...noticed by many yesterday that the Harvard cheer which is preeminent among the college cheers for dignified slowness, is gradually degenerating into the fast and frivolous "rahing" of Yale...
...meeting for years. The events were well contested and the games passed off with snap and vigor. Two inter-collegiate records were broken. Chamberlain threw the hammer more than a foot further than the previous record, and Wright and Bemis both walked the mile in better than record time. Fast time was also made in the mile run. Altogether, the prospect for the Mott Haven team was never so good. In all probability, Harvard can win in New York the same events as last year, and ought also to add those in which her men hold inter-collegiate records...