Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee of the amateur rowing association have defined a junior sculler as follows: "A junior sculler is one who has never pulled in a senior race, nor won a junior scull race; a junior oarsman is one who has never pulled an oar in a senior race, nor been a winning oarsman in a junior race; competitions with members of his own club will not affect the standing as a junior of any oarsman or sculler; the qualification of a junior oarsman or sculler shall relate to each time of his coming to the starting post, whether in a trial...
...preparations, and a large field of entries is assured. The track, as our article of yesterday explained, is a new one and has been kept in the very best of order. The number of entries and the character of the track lead one to expect not only well contested races but some very fast time. Every man to win will have to exert himself to the utmost; and, on a fine track, such exertions ought to succeed in lowering some of the records. The bicycle race also promises well, as more colleges than ever are to send...
...suit a new class of female students; on the conviction that a "higher education" of women, secured under conditions similar to that of men, would "endanger their health and make them unfit for the duties of family life;" on the danger to which "future mothers and teachers of our race would be exposed by an unrestricted course of reading and study, and an intimate acquaintance as well with the heathen literature of the ancient world as with modernphysiological research;" and lastly, on the ground that the women who would avail themselves of such changes as proposed would...
Amherst, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Yale are expected to be represented in the bicycle race at the inter-collegiate games this spring. It will undoubtedly be a race well worth looking...
...WINTHROP WHITE, Race...