Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hanlan has signed articles for a race with Beach in Australia on November 26. The stakes are $2500 a side and the championship of the world...
...Yale Sophomore Crew is somewhat hampered by a debt incurred at the race last year; the News appeals to the patriotism of the class to remove this difficulty...
...anxious faces. Lean men, short men, fat men, tall men, sturdy men, sallow men, flabby men and bronzed men - all 'trying for the crew!" Finally the crew was selected. Challenges came from Columbia and Yale, and were accepted. The crew got on the water. Then came the class races. After the excitement of these had subsided, the prospect of the race with Yale and Columbia was the one thing that occupied the thoughts of '89. The crew went to New London. Their reception and experiences there are told in a very amusing manner. Then came the great and glorious race...
...touches our honor as Englishmen very nearly that this scheme should be carried out without delay. France and Germany have long been in the field. France has her School and Germany her Institute; and even America has forestalled us in this race. That new country, notwithstanding the vast and absorbing interests of the present, notwithstanding the boundless hopes of the future, has been eager to claim her part in the heritage. While all the civilized nations of the world, one after another, have established their literary councils in Athens, shall England alone be unrepresented at the centre of Hellenic culture...
...that of the American School. But the words of Bishop Lightfoot, with but slight change, may now appeal powerfully to our own national pride and honor. Above all things, we must not, at this late day, allow ourselves to play the part of the sleeping hare in this friendly race...