Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Alumni Association of Cleveland, O., has offered a prize of $100 to the winner of a single scull race to be rowed sometime during the present year under rules to be determined by the authorities of the Yale Navy...
...42nd university boat race between Oxford and Cambridge on Saturday, the Oxonians defeated the Cantabs by three boat lengths, the time being 21m. 36s. This gives Oxford 23 victories, and Cambridge 18, the race in 1877 having been a dead heat...
...Yale once more claims the college championship in rowing. How absurd this is. We should think that a college that can boast of so many real achievements would disdain to stoop to claiming what they have no right to. Yale rows but one race, and refuses all other challenges, and then claims the championship of all the colleges. If any college has a right to such claim, it is the University, for we have by far the best record of any. but we make no such claim...
HERRICK.We know more about almost everything in the universe than we do about the nature of dreams. And yet the reverse of this ought certainly to be true. Experientia docet, says the old proverb; but dreams, which have been the common experience of all, ever since the race began its existence, are as incomprehensible today as though they were phenomena vouchsafed to man but once in a century...
...cable despatch from England says that one of the men of the Cambridge crew is hopelessly ill, and as it is too late to properly train a substitute, Oxford is certain to win the university boat race...