Word: raced
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very small. H. M. Banks and H. R. Cowell are entered for the quarter mile run and M. R. Strong, J. M. Hewhitt and F. G. Colton will contest in the half-mile run. The general opinion is that Dohm of Princeton will win one of these races. In the mile run Columbla's representatives are H. F. Hornbostel and A. S. Vosburgh. Columbia men think they have an excellent chance in this race. In the mile walk T. McIlvanie and L. Collis are entered H. Mapes is expected to win either the 120 or 220 yards hurdle race...
...Match race-One quarter mile for a special prize, presented by the Staten Island Athletic Club, W. C. Dohm, Princeton, won in 51 seconds; W. C. Downes, Harvard second...
...annual spring races of the club will be held on Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock, in the Charles River Basin. The course for paddling canoes except class I will be half a mile along the river bank and return, that of class I being a quarter of a mile and return. The sailing race will be over a triangular course each side having half a mile...
...those immediately preceding it. The editorial department in particular is good. The management of the finances of the varions athletic organizations is criticised in a candid, and on the whole, just manner, and the reforms suggested are both necessary and timely. The matter of the proposed three-cornered freshman race has been already pretty thoroughly discussed, so the editorial on that subject does little more than sum up the argument in a forcible way. The old subject of the formation of a second sophomore society is again brought out. It is to be hoped that the matter will...
What Professor Lumholtz had to say of the natives themselves was, however, the most instructive part of the talk. He is the only European who has ever made this people a study. They are unquestionably the lowest of the human race in the scale of civilization; everything connected with their life proves this. The language is very simple, the vocabulary being extremely limited: there are no general words, as the natives do not make the simplest generalization; whole ideas are expressed by single words, and everything marks a primitive phase of human life. This is even more clearly shown...