Word: raced
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some verdant freshman has painted a large "90" on the outside of the boat-house along side of the "88," which has been there since the races last May. Hopeful '90 doesn't appear to fully appreciate that a race ought to have been won before his efforts with the brush were essayed...
...quarter-mile run, and Wright, '86, in the mile walk. Second prizes went to H. L. Clark, '87, in the running high jump; R. D. Smith, '86, in the running broad jump; D. B. Chamberlain, '88, in throwing the hammer and putting the shot; Bradley, '86, in the hurdle race; Bemis, '87, in the mile walk; Rogers, '87, in the half-mile run; making four first and eight second prizes. Three hearty cheers, led by Mumford, '87, were given for the Athletic Association...
...decided. But we believe that something more must be done. There is a feeling prevalent in college that the freshman class in voting as they did, failed to show a manly spirit and have adopted unworthy tactics. If the course at New London is suitable for a triple race, and Columbia desires the contest, then it is the plain duty of our freshmen to take the most honorable course open to them and accept the challenge. If the course is proved unsuitable, then the matter is decided once for all. There are many men amongst us who think that...
...Harvard Navy management are aware of the advantage that the Freshman race affords the boating interests of the University in different ways; and why should not Yale enjoy the same advantage? Besides the freshman classes of the two universities meet on the foot-ball field in the fall, and in the spring on the diamond, and it is only natural that the two crews should carry out this system on the water. The exclusion of our freshmen from the New London race will not check the importance that is now attached to this crew, as they have already under advisement...
...Oxford-Cambridge race on Saturday resulted in an easy victory for the Cambridge men, who led from the start. Oxford broke an oar at the end of the third mile, but rowed out the race pluckily. Cambridge had a professional coxswain...