Word: raced
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first week or two at the beginning of the year is always a time of leisure. No one pretends to study, for in an elective system, as in a horse-race at a county fair, no one takes the course until after a dozen false starts. This is the time, as the college almanac says, to get in your early Bowdoin dissertations. Take a quire of the best letter-paper, and rule off a wide inch of the margin. Write with the blackest of ink very plainly, and give special attention to punctuation. A piece without other points is often...
Thus ended the race, for which our Freshman crew worked faithfully during the winter months, and for which they sacrificed a considerable part of the summer vacation...
...patient work of Mr. Crocker, as well as the assistance of Mr. Bancroft, the class owe much. Especially to the coach, who took the arduous position when the interest of the class itself was wanting, are they indebted for sending to meet Cornell a crew that pulled a stern race most pluckily, and in a form that only could be acquired by constant practice and the best of training...
...loss of the race was due greatly to the superior weight of the Cornell crew, who seemed to force their boat through the water regardless of their form or anything else. The fact that Captain North was unable to row had much to do with the result, for it was impossible that even so good an oar as Mr. Foster could fill with his light weight the place in the waist of the boat formerly occupied by the "heavy man" of the crew...
...arrangements for the day were very complete, and the thousands of people present were enabled without difficulty to witness an exciting and most prettily rowed race...