Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard has challenged us to a four-mile race next summer, and we have accepted. Therefore, the difficulty of last summer is practically settled. We shall not trump up old issues and argue as to the advisability of having accepted this challenge, but since the die has been cast and the crew pledged to row, we call on every man to lay aside personal prejudice and to support the crew to the best of his ability. Many men are probably not satisfied that Harvard has made due reparation in sending a challenge without an accompanying apology. They therefore deem...
...next day Travers took us half a mile out of the town, to the Company's mine, on a bare hill-side dotted with groups of men working around their shafts. Two of the "Company" were at work down below, and two were turning the cranks of the rough wooden windlass. They were shaggy, powerful, good-natured fellows, who shook me warmly by the hand when they learned that I was an old friend of their "pard's," and treated Elsie as if she were a goddess just stepped down from the clouds...
...result will surely be followed by others of equal importance. The work now being done is light in comparison with what will be required after the mid-years. At present the crew content themselves with a short pull of about three hundred strokes and a run of half a mile and back up the avenue, beside going through the first course on the chest weights. This amount of work will be gradually increased until the semis are over, when the crew will be ready to settle down to the really hard work of the year...
...meeting of the class of '86, Columbia, Dec. 8, it was voted unanimously to accept the challenge of the Harvard freshmen for a two-mile, straight-a-way eight-oared race...
...thousand persons witnessed the bicycle races at the Institute Fair building last night. The ten-mile professional race between Prince and Frye was won by the former in 32m. 44 1/8s...