Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Next Monday evening the freshmen hold a mass meeting to decide whether or no the Yale freshmen shall take part in the race next June. Columbia has just given her consent to Yale's rowing, at this late date, and now it only remains for Harvard to make her decision...
Yale will probably put a "veteran" crew upon the water this spring. The result of the race with Harvard will go a great way toward determining the disputed question of the comparative merits of "veteran" and so-called "raw" crews...
Ethnography. What were the races of Babylonia? Was the non-Shemitic population Turanian or Cushite? Which race worshiped natural forces, and employed magic? Which race developed an elaborate mythology? How did the religion of the Assyrians differ from this latter...
...tending, our critics say, as they have said any time these hundred years, to rear a race of good-humored do nothings, if not worse; and so on. There is but one answer to this. That is to be found in the Harvard spirit of which I have already spoken. Go where you will and look at Harvard men and the work they are doing in the world. It is not brilliant, perhaps; it may lack the uncompromising vigor that the cant of our day describes as practical. But wherever you find Harmen in a body you find honest, self...
...Harvard freshmen seem unaccountably shy about letting the Yale freshmen in their New London race. It is all the difference they perceive between an almost sure victory rowed against Columbia alone, and a doubtful victory with Yale in the race. The excuse alleged that the New London course is not adapted for three crews is a humbug. At any rate they will probably take no action until it is possible to see what kind of crew the Yale freshmen will have. - New York World...