Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...monkey roll race has six pairs entered, thus making five races or heats...
...been decided by Bowdoin to send a crew this year to compete in the inter-collegiate race. The crew is to be selected from the following: G. M. Norris, L. B. Varney, W. W. Woodman, H. C. Jackson and Frank Lyman. The positions have not yet been assigned...
...prizes, the tug-of-war team, - Easton, Curtis, Remington and Pease; Wendell Baker in the 2.20 yard dash and quarter-mile run; Bradley in the running broad jump. Second prizes were won by D. C. Clark, in putting the shot, Gibson in throwing the hammer, Dean in the bicycle race, Fogg in the running broad jump, and Bemis in the mile walk. The cup was first awarded by the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association in 1876, when Princeton was the victor. For the next three years Columbia held it, but in 1880 it came to Harvard, where it has since remained...
...Dudley, '87, J. C. Faulkner, '86, S. H. Knapp, '87, G. A. Pudor, '86, and T. Bachelder, L. S. All the men seemed well versed in all kinds of hand-springs, walking with arms, etc. Mr. Knapp's spider walk occasioned long and continued laughter and applause. The race between Messrs. Bachelder and Knapp and Dudley and Faulkner in the double somersault art was won by Dudley and Faulkner. This event was the clown of the afternoon, and the ape-like movements of the contestants elicited long and uproarious applause. In this event Dudley won the first prize and Knapp...
...urging that the Irish were now unfit, would perhaps always be unfit to govern themselves; that they did not wish to govern themselves; that they wanted independence and to smash the British empire; that they did not want to be separated from England; that they were a degraded race; that they were an enlightened race, but not yet sufficiently advanced to use their new rights...