Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...desire to join the Inter-collegiate Rowing Association. Harvard and Yale experience in the old Inter-collegiate Association was far from pleasing. Whatever was thought to be known about amateur crew rowing ten years ago was supposed to be locked up at Cambridge and New Haven, and when the "potato-digging agriculturists" from Amherst and other "countrymen" pulled away the honors and renown from the scientific "oars" of the great universities, the disappointment was very great. With only two crews in a race the chances of a "win" are far better than with seven or eight, and, as Harvard...
...foot-ball kick, G. T. Westland, 119 feet; quarter-mile run, C. F. Ayer, 1 min. 3 3/4 sec.; hurdle race, 120 yards, ten hurdles, H. F. McIntire, 21 1/4 sec.; half-mile run, A. A. Heard, 2 min. 43 1/2 sec.; three-legged race, Allen and Carroll; potato race, ten apples placed at intervals of six feet and brought separately to the starting point, H. F. McIntire...
...potato is a susceptible vegetable. It is constantly getting mashed. - [Commercial Bulletin...
From a member of the Senior Class of the Bussey Institute (author of a work on "Potato...