Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Saturday evening's edition of the Transcript contained a very vigorous, forcible and almost violent communication, protesting against the abolishment of foot ball. The writer says at the close: "Probably the next step will be to have the inter-collegiate boat-races conducted with steam launches, because "brutal" strength is needed at the oar. Is it a pleasant prospect that not game should be allowed except those that girls can have part in, and will it improve our race. "The puny weaklings who would be exterminated in a natural state of society will taken the a affirmative...
...Yale 'Varsity crew have begun rowing, now that foot ball is over for this season, They expect to train from now till the race in June...
...Acta Columbiana says that in the recent boat race between '87 and '88, it appeared that '88 had excellent material for a strong crew. The strong crew '87 crew defeated the '88 crew by about four lengths...
...Thursday, it is obvious that there remains still quite a spark of enthusiasm in a considerable number of students for these crosscountry runs. Thier importance in the line of bringing out men for long distances cannot be over-estimated. If we expect to win the mile race at the next inter-collegiate meeting, we must do something more than run two or three weeks on the track in the spring. This something else, I think, should consist in cross-country runs. Dr. Sargent assured me this fall that there was no sport better adapted to prepare men for the mile...
...November 20. Subjects: I. A translation of one of the following passages, viz. (1) Odyssey IX. 502-460, (2) Virgil, Eclogue IV., (3) Livy. I. 57-58. 2. The Presidential Election of 1884. 3. The Shakspers Society at Harvard. 4. My Favorite Novelist. 5. The Last Harvard-Yale Boat-Race. 6. Torchlight Processions. 7. A Legitimate Purpose of a College Course. 8. Henry Irving, Actor and Manager...