Word: light
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hosiery in silk, lisle thread and cotton; underwear in cashmere, light wool, Balbriggan, summer merino and gauze...
...accustomed to running on loose cinders can show to advantage on the tracks in New York City. The long heavy stride developed on a hard, firm clay track is totally unsuited to ground that cups at every step. Practice on a cinder track, however, in time develops a short light step eminently adapted to loose ground...
Hosiery in silk, lisle thread and cotton; underwear in cashmere, light wool, Balbriggan, summer merino and gauze...
Towards the end of March, the crew left the machines for the river; beginning work in the light pair-oars. They next used the 'Varsity barge and finally a few weeks before the class races they changed it for their new Water's shell. In the class races the Freshmen came in third. Considering the fact that their captain was unable to row, and that several accidents occurred during the race, this was doing remarkably well...
...usual thing freshman crews improve wonderfully at New London, and it is to be hoped that '90 will follow the general example. But little is known of the Columbia men, but as was shown in '82 and '84, their crews, though light, are at times remarkably fast...