Word: raced
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vote of the Yale freshmen to challenge the Harvard freshmen to a boat-race, the News speaks editorially as follows...
...permitted to edit Harvard newspapers and Harvard programmes still apply to the inter collegiate team the ridiculous name "Mott Haven." We are informed that hereafter the Harvard crew which rows against Yale at New London next July will be called the "Winnipiseogee Crew," because the Harvard-Yale race was rowed on that euphoniously named lake. - Spirit of the Times...
Miss Collins then spoke in her own character as one who had lived long among Indians and knew them as a race worth working...
...Longfellow next introduced Gen. Armstrong, prefacing his introduction with an account of the two societies in Cambridge organized for the aid of the Indian race, - a Branch of the Woman's National Indian Association, which aims to directly benefit the Indians by personal help and by missionary work in the West and at the schools, and a Branch of the Indian Race Association, which devotes its attention to the protection of Indians...
...Cambridge-Oxford boat race was rowed last Saturday. The race was close and exciting throughout, there being no open water between the boats during the contest. Cambridge won in 22 min. 9 1-2 sec., half a boat length ahead. The average weight of the Cambridge men was 170.9 pounds; of the Oxford crew, 171.3. The time was the slowest since 1877, as the race was rowed against strong head winds all the way. The record for the past eleven years is, Oxford, 7 races; Cambridge, 4; and one dead heat...