Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...President, S. F. McCleary, '88; Captain, R. S. Baldwin, '89; and Secretary, G. H. Merrill, '90. A number of men, of whom the most prominent are Davis, '91; Norton, L. S.; Brown, '91, and Bailey, '91, have declared their intention of going into active training for the two mile race at the H. A. A. spring meeting. Harvard's chances of winning this event at Mott Haven this year are exceedingly good. It is probable that a handicap road race, similar to the one held last November, will be held about May 1. It has also been suggested...
...which the ravages of time may be checked. The poet promises eternity to his friend and attempts to preserve him from the accidents of time. In the first sonnets, Shakspere thinks only of the beauty of his friend, and, seeing that the individual must die, looks to the race for immortality and urges him to marry that his beauty may survive in his children. This thought of a merely physical immortality was too narrow, and seemed in-adequate. The poet then imagined that he could triumph over Time by immortalizing his friend in his verse. This hope also proved delusive...
...originally intended to revive, this year, the Art-Mines Freshman race, which, besides being usually a close and exciting one to watch, was an excellent means of testing the men's "sand," and thus in picking the crew. So few men, however, tried for places in the boats, and such little interest seemed to be taken by the classes in the matter, that it has been given...
...betting is in favor of the Cambridge crew at present; but unless there is a great improvement in their form during the next few days, Oxford will probably be the favorite in the race...
Considerable surprise, but little dissatisfaction, was expressed by the students of Columbia College when it was officially announced at the last meeting of the boat club that the annual race between Harvard and Columbia was declared off this year. Prof. Jasper Goodwin, who stands in the same relation to the boating interests at Columbia that Bob Cook does at Yale, heartily approved of the decision arrived at. He said: "The agreement with Harvard providing for an annual race still continues, and the action taken by our representatives affects only this year's race. When we saw that we could...