Word: raced
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...them take advantage of this opportunity in large numbers. The committee's idea in doing so is to afford the Freshmen a chance of comparing their own records on that day with those of some of the upper classmen. Freshmen are apt to feel some reluctance to enter a race against other men who have been training - as Freshmen erroneously suppose - for some time. This special day's programme should draw forth many of the more timid men, and prepare the winners, at all events, for the following Saturday's competition...
...articles in the Cornell Review for October are chiefly written by alumni, so that we cannot judge it by the same standard as other college papers. There is nothing of which to complain in the perfectly impartial account of the Freshman race, excepting perhaps the remark that "as usual, Cornell had won"; and that is too harmless a piece of self-deception to call out any reply...
...taken to revive the interest in the sport it will die an easy death. It has been too often shown that the average undergraduate mind thirsts for novelty, and is attracted for the time by anything new, just as younger children are fascinated by some new toy. Class races and club races having now palled upon his appetite, might not an entire change of diet tempt his palate? And with this end in view would it not be possible to use eight-oared shells for the fall races? We believe that there are now some five or six such shells...
ATHLETICS.Manhattan Athletic Club. - A curious series of errors occurred at the sports of this club, on September 21. For a one-mile handicap walk, over a one-fifth-mile track, thirty-nine men started, and when the race was over, W. Purdy, 35 sec., was placed first, and his time was found to be 6 min. 15 sec. It was also found, on reckoning up, that the three first men had all beaten 6 min. 30 sec. An error somewhere was evident, and it finally turned out that the lap-taker was from one to three laps short on every...
BICYCLING.In view of the number of bicycles now owned in College, it would seem that some very interesting races might be arranged for this fall. If one or two men are regarded as invincible in an even-start race, a system of handicaps should be introduced to equalize the chances, and induce more men to enter. In this connection we will say that we offer a cup for a handicap race to come off whenever the track on Jarvis is ready, and to be a distance of two-mile heats, best 2 in 3, with a proviso that seven...