Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that Columbia has seen for some time. The men who are training are exceedingly well developed and a very promising looking set of young oarsmen, and without a doubt some of them will eventually fill positions in the university eight. The men are training very systematically. After running a mile or two they work half an hour on the weights and row ten minutes on the machines. This has been going on for some time, and the good effects of hard work are beginning to show themselves. Of course, freshmen can learn little of rowing on the machines, but what...
...Yale bicycle club race-meeting at New Haven : 3 miles, open to all college men ; 1 mile, Harvard vs. Yale championship. May 31. Harvard bicycle club race-meeting : 1 mile, open to all college men ; 1 mile handicap, open only to Harvard men ; 5 miles, Harvard vs. Yale championship, besides four other invitation races...
...senior crew has challenged the university to a two-mile race tomorrow. The challenge has been accepted...
...mile race tomorrow, between the seniors and university crew will attract the attention of all interested in college boating. The seniors have departed from the style of stroke practiced by the university crew for four-mile pulls, adopted likewise by the other class crews, and have been coached to row a much quicker stroke, which they claim will do them better service in the class races than the Harvard stroke. For this reason, aside from the question of whether a class crew can compete with the university crew at short distances, the race ought to draw a considerable crowd...
...Boston and Albany R. R., on account of the general reduction of fares will not issue any reduced rate tickets for those wishing' to accompany the nine this year. Thousand-mile tickets, at the rate of two cents per mile, which can be used by a number of men going in a party, will reduce the fare somewhat...