Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last number of the Columbia Spectator is unusually good. It contains a very clever poem on the Columbia-Harvard race of last year...
...every one prepared to endure the speeches as long as speeches were forthcoming. Even the departure of the president at half-past four did not break up the company, which sat without any display of weariness till half-past seven. Truly the Americans are a patient and much enduring race...
...said that the sophomores hope to have the same crew this year as last, and if such is the case, their chances are very good for the race this spring. With the exception of Capt. Davis, no old men have yet begun work. The new men are: Burr, Proctor, Howe, Hibbard, Ruland, Trafford, Newell and Woodbury...
Freshmen are reminded that the running track in the gymnasium is not a race course...
Attempts have been made in the last few years to boom single sculling at Harvard. A cup has been offered to the best sculler in college and the race is more sharply contested every year. It seems strange that so manly and health-giving an exercise as single sculling, encouraged by all the boating men of the college, has never been encouraged by the gymnasium authorities. Among the apparatus at the gymnasium there is nothing that resembles single sculling in the least. There are certainly more scullers than bicyclists in college, yet we have two or three practice wheels...