Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make his way along Oxford street and through the yard at a neck or nothing pace. It need hardly be said that such unnatural speed as this is harmful to the last degree, especially since it is apt to follow closely upon the exhaustion produced by the daily sprint race to the chapel doors. Yet the student must go into this "rush," or else be marked absent at the recitation at which he is due on the hour immediately after his recitation at the museum. Some change must evidently be made out of regard to the heart-diseased students...
Yale's fall regatta was held on Wednesday, on Lake Saltonstall. Five hundred spectators witnessed the races. Appleton won the single scull race. '89 won the race with '88, and '87 the eight oared race with...
...RACEbegan. All four boats started well together, and for the first few strokes neither had any advantage. On the third stroke Brown, of Harris' eight, snapped his oar, and thus put his crew out of the race. In the first fifty yards Colony and Mumford began to draw ahead, and when the crews were abreast of the boat-house it could be seen that the finish would result in a lapping race. At this point Mumford was leading Colony by half a length, with Harris a good third, and Porter last, but lapping Harris. All the crews spurted desperately over...
...scratch races to be held this noon form one of the pleasantest features in the athletic annals of the year. The races for senior eights are generally well contested, and the crews, though hastily gotten together, often row in really good form. The race between freshman eights serve the same purpose as does the clown in a circus. It is to be hoped, however, that the eighty-nine crews will not be wrought to such a pitch of enthusiasm as to attempt to drive their boats through the sea wall, as did the freshman crews of last year. The four...
...oars the club is woefully deficient, Only a few pairs, and many of these not mates, are to be had for the pair-oared boats and for the singles. The only two four-oared working boats owned by the club are so out of repairs that the scratch race for fours announced for tomorrow's races may have to be given up. It is time that something were done to remedy the existing state of decay in the Harvard navy; it must not be allowed to follow the example set by the navy of the United States...