Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fall class races will be rowed this afternoon at 4 o'clock, and, as this is a new departure on the part of the University Boat Club, it is hoped that the whole college will show its appreciation of the club's enterprise and enliven the race by its presence...
...race is to be rowed on a course which can easily be seen anywhere along the Beacon St. wall and from the Union Boat House. It will be rowed in barges and under the rules which usually govern the class races. If an accident occurs within the first ten strokes, the crews will be recalled for a new start. There is every reason to believe that the race will be well worth seeing. The crews have been strenghthened by the old men who have come in and by constant practice during the last two weeks. The Law School crew...
Bicycle runs will be held every Wednesday and Saturday at Yale, and prizes will be offered for the final race, which will be between five and ten miles...
...revival of the fall class races marks the first step toward the radical reform in rowing matters to be begun this year. The conclusion has at last been reached that our crews must row throughout the whole of term time if they can expect to be successful against Yale. For several years now we have wasted the fall, contenting ourselves with scratch races, the only value of which was to furnish a little amusement for the college. At last our mistake is acknowledged and a change inaugurated. Fall class races are now to be revived with the expectation that they...
Suitable prizes will be given to the members of the winning crew. The crews have been hard at work every afternoon for more than two weeks in anticipation of this race. It will not, therefore, be the careless exhibition of rowing which has unsually taken place in the fall, but, on the contrary, it will be a well contested race and it is hoped that the whole college, by their presence next Friday to witness the race, will encourage the rowing men in their determination to increase the evidently growing interest in boating. The fact that...