Word: race
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With the rowing of this week the three upper class crews will have finished their work in the heavy barges and begun the actual preparation for the race in their light ships. The Senior crew made the change unexpectedly yesterday on account of the damage done to their barge, which ran aground Tuesday. Ninety-nine expect to get into their new shell by the end of the week, when Davy expects to have it ready. The two Freshman eights, although going fairly well in their barges, will not be ready to change into the more unsteady shells for another week...
...Springfield conference on Saturday, May 14 was definitely fixed on as the date for the dual track games between Harvard and Yale on Holmes Field. It was also decided to hold the bicycle race in two preliminary heats and a final, on the Charles River track the morning before the games. In case the I. C. A. A. A. A. should separate the bicycle events from the track events next year the Dual League should also omit them...
...season's football policy was to vary the routine of practice as well as lighten the training, and that of the rowing authorities is a great change for the better since the time when 'Varsity crew candidates were called out before Christmas and kept in strict training till the race. This more enlightened movement may not immediately result in success, we have no right to predict that it will, but it is certainly in the right direction...
...meeting in Springfield this afternoon to make the final arrangements for the Harvard-Yale dual games the Harvard representatives will try to get Yale to agree: (1) To have the bicycle race on the Charles River track on the morning before the games. (2) To have one heat in the bicycle race instead of two and the finals as heretofore. (3) To have the high jump come before the pole vault in the order of events...
...political and commercial reasons this country has much to gain by co-operation with England. Furthermore there is a patriotism of race as well as of country. Further still in such a cooperation lies the best hope not only of the two countries but of the entire world. It is perhaps not too much to hope that in the near future there will be such a union, and this will set an example sure to be of the most important and beneficient influence to mankind...