Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is soon to be a mass meeting of the freshman class to reconsider the action taken in regard to admitting Yale to the Columbia-Harvard race next June...
...August, 1869, the Times in its account of the Harvard-Oxford race, spoke of the "Ah! Ah!-Ah!" of the American college men. A letter to the Nation comments on this, and attacks the college for its abandonment of the "fine old lung" cheer (Hurrah), and its adoption of this "mouth-cheer, without either force or dignity." This brings out better several answers in strong support of our present cheer. The arguments or impressions of the writers are hardly interesting, except from what they say of the origin of the "Rah!" cheer, as follows: "In 1864 the college turned...
...Cambridge-Oxford race will be rowed March...
...annual boat race between the eight-oared crews of Oxford and Cambridge universities, which causes universal interest throughout the United Kingdom, will soon be rowed upon the Thames between Putney and Mortlake. The crews are of the average weight, although the Cambridge men are some five pounds lighter than their opponents from Oxford...
...other of them wins the championship, and if once a league by themselves, public interest, not to say collegiate too, will concentrate on their three nines most naturally. Let this once be done and the base-ball matches between Harvard, Yale and Princeton will be what the New London race and the New York foot-ball match already are. Then and not till then college base-ball will attract greater and more exciting attention than the games of professionals...