Word: raced
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...convenience of their opponents. Thus many Harvard men, desirous of seeing their crews pull, are unable to do so at the cost of so great a part of their vacation; and Harvard is forced to undergo considerable additional expense to support her crew while waiting for the race. This race, besides, must be rowed at a great summer resort, where the water is no better than at other places nearer home; (for where else can fourteen boats row abreast? and if the boats do not row abreast, how is each individual small college to know its exact position relative...
When therefore there are combined with these objections the annoyances necessarily attendant on a convention, the members of which devote their time to quibbles about parliamentary law, which almost loses sight of the advantages of the race in the clouds of many rows and disputes, and in connection with which there is a necessary outlay of money and time that might as well, and had better be saved, certainly no one can question the claim that Harvard has fair grounds for withdrawing from the Association. But when it is added that Harvard and Yale, although having greater numbers of students...
...ardent a lover of his race could scarcely have intended such black pigments for students in general, and we must seek among ourselves peculiarly for the peccadilloes of licentiousness and drunkenness which he has placed in pillory. I am afraid that with our author anxiousness for our ultimate perfection has outrun observation of facts. I object to the otherwise good figure in regard to Society's veiling its head in the presence of immorality, on the ground that the mask is for the erring. That one should pretend to discover among us openness of vice, that last step in moral...
...Athletic sports. The time made was as a whole not superior to ours; but the account in the Under-graduates' Journal is so full of typographical errors that it is hardly safe to trust the record. At Lincoln College, Oxford, the best thing was the 150 yard handicap race, which was won in 14 2/5 sec. The high jump was singularly bad, - 4 ft. 7 inches. At Exeter College a half-mile race won in 2 min. 3/5 sec. was the only thing deserving notice...
...Caius College, Cambridge, the high jump, 5 ft. 4 in., was the best thing. The hundred-yard race occupied 11 sec. At Christ's the hundred-yard was run in 10 3/5 sec., and the 150-yard handicap...