Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...capital man for the place. The crew runs every day on North Avenue, and pulls the chest weights three times, and uses the dumb-bells twice every week. The '85 crew has ordered a fine paper shell from Waters, which they will use in the class races. After the race this will be sold to the freshman crew, which will use it in the Columbia race. In the class races, the freshmen will use the '82 'varsity shell. A. P. Butler is now stroking the second crew, which is doing fairly well. Altogether, the crew is working well and faithfully...
...Oxford and Cambridge 'varsity crews have gone into active training with the beginning of Lent. General opinion is turning in favor of Cambridge for the race...
...race for the Child's Cup, in which most of the four-oared college crews will enter, will be rowed on the Shawmut course; near Philadelphia, on June 18th...
...annual boat race between Oxford and Cambridge will take place this year on March 28th...
From comparison of these reports, it will be seen that the total amounts of receipts and expenditures of both crews are almost identical, in spite of the fact that our expenses at New London were increased some $200 over '86, owing to the postponement of the race. Again, acting under the advice of the captain of the University crew, we employed the services of Col. Bancroft through the fall. This was at an additional expense of $175. In order to meet this increased expenditure, we economised by buying a second-hand shell of the class of '84, and used every...