Word: races
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...GREEN," "Tom Brown," and "Five Years at an English University," afford any amount of information about the chapels, dining-halls, "quads," and student life in general at Oxford. But I do not remember that any one of them gives the best time made in the quarter-of-a-mile race or the one-hundred yard dash; and this is the point I wish to come to, namely, Athletics. The question is frequently asked, "Why do the English university men excel the American students in everything relating to Athletics?" And quite as often the answer is given, "Because they...
...hundred-yard race...
...mile barge-race was won by Seventy-nine in 13.01; the pair-oared race in 8.02 3/4; the single-scull race...
...means." And I searched my mind for one. "Was n't the race glorious?" I began...
...left last week. Professor Agassiz has now returned to Cambridge; and after consulting him, steps will be taken to ascertain what position Yale means to maintain in regard to the groundless and insulting charges she has seen fit to make against the referee of our last race with her. We think that in this matter the general sentiment of Harvard is as follows : Yale is, above all other colleges, the one with which we wish to row, and in order to secure a race with her, we would be willing to do everything and submit to everything that gentlemen could...