Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...track athletes are making active preparations for the fall races, which take place in about three weeks. Among the events, it is expected that there will be a half-mile race open to all amateurs in the country. Sherrill, '89, who is now the champion 100-yards runner of the country, will run in these races, as will also Hinckley, '88, who has a record of a quarter-mile in 51 3-4 seconds; Bradner, who is able to run within a fraction of a second of the record in the half-mile run has retired from the track permanently...
...HAVEN, Sept. 25.-When President Timothy Dwight heard that Yale had won the boat race over Harvard at New London last June he flung his hat in the air in giving vent to his joy. Probably no one knew better than Yale's enterprising, go-ahead President how much good that victory and the other victories won by the blue-clad athletes were worth to the university. The American youth is essentially either an athlete himself or a lover of athletics, and when he arrives at that stage of life at which he enters college the athletic reputation...
...boats neared the finish they were greeted by the usual New London concert, which at times sounds most pleasantly, and at others most disagreeably. This time, although the volume of noise was greater, the general effect produced was hardly equal to that rendered at the time of the Columbia race...
HARVARD.Same as in the Columbia race...
...officers of the race were...