Word: raced
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...three mile race, with turn, for class eights with coxswains; prizes, a pair of silk flags, inscribed, one with the names of the members of the winning crew, the other with the date of the race and the year of the class. These flags to be class property. Also, for each of the eight victors and their coxswain there will...
...mile race, with turn, for Senior Single Scullers; prize, the championship of the University...
...mile and a half race, with turn, for Junior Single Scullers; prize...
...present day. In the Bodleian is preserved a tattered and dingy pamphlet, in which the exercises are designated by mysterious combinations of letters and numerals, and are briefly described. After much study I have deciphered a part of it. As each student kept at least one horse, racing was one of the chief amusements, and the list of races was remarkably large. Among them were Gk 9 and Gk 1, the former for famous trotters, and the latter for those who had never beaten 3.30. Ltn 2 was an exhibition of family cobs, Ltn 7 of draft-horses...
Senior Scullers are those who have previously rowed in a race open to all members of the University; Junior Scullers are those who have not rowed in any such race...