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Word: racing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...delegation from Yale visited Cambridge on Saturday in order to get arrangements made for a Yale-Harvard freshman race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/7/1887 | See Source »

...Greeks were the one race which developed athletic games, and this fact distinguishes them from other races. During the period of transition in art the games were chiefly developed. Before, they had been part of the religious rites of certain ceremonial, but from 530 B.C., they assumed a distinct national character. The Olympic games were a plan of unity for the whole race; Greece laid aside all internal feuds to join in participation of them. In the 52nd Dynasty the statue of a victor was first fashioned in wood. This was very rough, but when the ice was once broken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Waldstein's Lecture. | 3/3/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON : Now that the Yale freshmen have refused, and I may almost say properly so, the challenge of Ninety to row on the Charles, after the race at New London, is there not an alternative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD FRESHMEN OUGHT TO ROW YALE. | 3/3/1887 | See Source »

Ninety has as good a crew, as far as can be ascertained at this time, as most of the preceding freshmen, and why should they be afraid to risk a race with Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD FRESHMEN OUGHT TO ROW YALE. | 3/3/1887 | See Source »

...students of Amherst will shortly have the "Chariot Race" from Ben Hur read to them by its author, Gen. Lew. Wallace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/2/1887 | See Source »

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