Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University Handicap meeting on Saturday, October 25, at 2.30. The events in both meetings will be as follows: 100 yards dash, 1-4 mile run, 1-2 mile run. 1 mile run, throwing the hammer, putting the shot, running high jump, running broad jump, pole vault, 120 yards hurdle race...
...Bowdoin four-oared crew will row the winners of the Dirigo race, tomorrow at Portland...
...Bowdoin crew for the intercollegiate four-oared race at Lake George next summer has been selected and the men are already hard at work. The crew will be Whittier, '85, (captain) stroke; Brown, '85, No. 3; Norris, '86, No. 2; Davis, '85, bow; Smith, '86, and Varney, '87, substitutes. A new shell will be ordered from Ruddock of Boston...
...result of co-education, the present standing and success of Wellesly augurs well for the system of female education as there pursued. The college is making immense strides after its older rivals and despite the sex of its students bids fair to equal if not outstrip them in the race...
...soundly beaten by both Princeton and Yale, and took our place at the bottom of the list instead of at the top. On the Thames, our crews which began the year under as favorable suspicious as ever attended a crew, went to pieces at New London, barely won a race from Columbia's wretched crew and were beaten by Yale, Everyone knows how Yale in spite of several new men in the boat and a radically changed stroke, by houest and intelligent work, backed by honest enthusiasm, turned out a crew which won honor for their college and themselves. Comment...