Word: racer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feature of the program, recently announced by E. E. Babb, chairman of the B. A. A. athletic committee, will be the events exclusively set aside for men in the service. These follow: 40-yard dash, 40-yard rescue racer, 600-yard run with full equipment, rope-climbing contest, tug-of-war between teams composed of eight men, and relay races. There will be two special races for both soldiers and civilians in which entrants they show by preliminary trial that they are worthy of competing. One of these, the three-mile run, is scratch, and athletes must show a record...
...American undergraduate for intercollegiate athletics is merely a symbol of a general interpretation for all the activities that come to his attention. If he is interested in politics, it is in election campaigns. In the contests of parties and personalities. His parades and cheering are the encouragement of a racer of the goal. After election, his enthusiasm collapses. His spiritual energy goes into class politics, fraternity and club emulation, athletics, every activity which is translatable into terms of winning and losing. In Continental universities this energy would rather go into a turbulence for causes and ideas, a militant radicalism...
...quite evident why the Lampoon has lately taken the selfish stand of debarring an undergraduate who has made the Advocate or CRIMSON from its own editorial staff. The three papers are as much alike as a hobby-horse, a Boston cab-horse, and a full-blooded racer. They are all means of conveyance...