Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crowd assembled to witness the finish of the race was unusually large...
...coxswain of the '88 crew lost two screws from his steering geer, between the boat-house and the starting point yesterday. It was proposed to delay the race until this damage could be repaired, but this was forbidden by the referee. Knowles was obliged therefore to use a paddle...
...unfortunate episode in connection with the class races calls for careful consideration by the students and authorities of the state of affairs which exists in one of our departments. A member of the junior crew, after a physical examination by the director of the gymnasium, was advised not to row because of supposed disease. The crew man was then examined by a physician of Boston, a gentleman held in high enough esteem by his profession to be a member of the Harvard medical faculty, and certainly as reliable as the gymnasium director, and was pronounced perfectly healthy and capable...
...class races have come and gone. Naturally enough three quarters of the undergraduates are to-day in the depths of despondency, while the other fraction of the college is correspondingly elated. Yet, barring the unfortunate occurence which deprived eighty-six of one of its most powerful oars, and leaving out of account the accident which partially disabled the eighty-eight boat, it must be admitted that the race between the two winning crews was won on its merits. While eighty-seven is to be heartily congratulated on its success, we cannot refrain from giving a word of sympathy to eighty...
Gilman, Keith and Hansen have now been rowing four years; Thayer and Homans for two years. Baldwin joined the crew last year, but has rowed only two weeks this spring. Harrington and Boyden will row their first race to-day. The crew lost during the last month, B. B. Thayer and R. Gorham, but was fortunate in having able men to take their places...