Word: men
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...said that the races should be straightaway. Our reference was particularly to the club races, and, as will be seen by this week's 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...
...Freshman Entry-Book will be kept open until Saturday morning to allow every opportunity for men to enter. At the present writing only four names appear on its pages, and if '82 do not come to time better, we shall fear that they are on a par with the upper classes in muscular inactivity...
...mile start if that is necessary to equalize him with the scratch man. Let no one despair, therefore, but enter his name anyhow, and, if not satisfied with the handicap, no one is obliged to start. Out of thirty bicycles said to be in college, surely six or eight men can be found willing to enter. Every time a man is beaten he gets a longer start in the next, and if every man perseveres he cannot fail to win a cup finally...
Their decision as to the order in which the men finish shall be final and without appeal...
...Some, like the boat-clubs, die a lingering death for want of victims; others are kept alive by men who are too zealous to take-warning by the fate of others, or too blind to heed the smiles and sneers of their classmates. The prudent man will stand aside, and let others make martyrs of themselves. Farewell, Freshman. We have more to warn to-night. Remember the watch-word, Policy! Farewell...