Word: raced
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...When Harvard challenged us last year, and later on invited us to go to America, all our men had gone off home or to different places, and it would have been impossible to get them together. So we did not accept, but while we were training for the race on the Thames with Oxford, I met ex-President Brandagee of the Harvard club, and he again extended the invitation. I spoke to our captain, but nothing was done, because we were so busy. After the race the matter was talked over, and I wrote privately to Mr. Coolidge...
...Morgan of Jesus College, the treasurer of the boat club, called a meeting of the captains. I was elected president, and at once suggested the advisability of corresponding with Harvard. The statement by Treasurer Morgan showed that our treasury had been badly depleted by the Oxford race expenses, and that it would be very hard work raising the funds necessary to defray the expenses of a trans-Atlantic trip. Therefore, before any propositions were made to Harvard, it was thought proper to ascertain the cost of the trip...
...rowed handsomely. I saw this year's Harvard eight on Charles river one day last week. They were returning from a long and arduous practice pull, and, although they were very tired, they were swinging along in that steamboat style which always makes Harvard so effective on race day. The men seem to get into the swing about as soon as they get positions in the boat. The men are in liberal training. They have the faults in the recovery of not feathering their oars, and they pause too long at the inception of the stroke...
Commenting on the prospects of a race between Cambridge and Harvard, the London Sporting Life says: "The race between Cambridge and Harvard will create an enormous amount of interest all over the world, and the latter university are to be congratulated on the success which their representatives have met with in inducing the Cantabs to cross the Atlantic. Mr. E. D. Brandegee and Mr. Arthur B. Fainzel, although they have not yet been able to absolutely settle the matter, have carried the negotiations so far that practically everything is arranged, and, unless something unforeseen happens, the visit will take place...
...dwarfed. These annual sports at Harrow were very enjoyable. Fine, manly boys, happy as the lark, and perfectly ignorant of the big old fight of life before them. I saw a running match of one hundred yards, one for a quarter of a mile, and a rattling one mile race, by four contestants. Hurdle racing and jumping concluded the first day's exercise. I could not remain the second day, but had sufficient experience at Harrow to urge earnestly the father and mother who read this letter to encourage their boys, by time, money (not much), your own presence...