Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bicycle race.- Eliot Norton, '85; F. L. Dean, '88; A. S. Hardy...
...Holmes an after-dinner orator who, to estimate his powers in this genre from his performance at the last Harvard commencement dinner, and again at the dinner of the bar last night, is as much above the common run of dinner speakers as his father is above the common race of banquet posts. Indeed, those two speeches of the younger Holmes are nothing short of poems in prose, being conceived in the loftiest spirit and broadest view, and scarcely less perfectly chiselled and polised in form than if they were in verse." -Boston Transcript...
...table. In former years, when all the crews had but one coach, some of them had to row at so late an hour as to be unable to obtain dinner at Memorial. A training table was then necessary for a long time. Last year, by the day of the race in May, one class had thus spent...
...leaping came the javelin throwing, in which the object was distance, not accuracy in hitting a certain mark. The javelin was light, and had no head, and was thrown by a thong. In this event the three men who made the shortest throws were dropped out. Next the foot race was held; this was the most primitive of all the contests, and for a long time was the only event at the Olympic games. From this fact came the custom of naming the year after the winner in this event. In the Pentathlon the customary distance was two hundred yards...
...Washington club blackballed Messrs. Greener and Terrell for other reasons than their color, the situation of the club at present is peculiarly unfortunate. Those reasons are evidently of such a nature that the club is unwilling to make them public, preferring rather to suffer under an unjust charge of race prejudice. This state of affairs must, of course, be a severe strain upon the patience of the club, and is apt to end in the indignation of some one of the members getting the better of him, and a revelation following of the personal objections which caused the black-balling...