Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exciting scene depicted on this page . . . is the conclusion of the race between the club boats Huron and Volant which took place on the 16th ult in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. The locality is faithfully represented. The houses in the background of the picture are the fine ones recently built on Western avenue; in front and to the left are Braman's baths and boat houses. From the baths a line was drawn to the judge's boat to form a starting point for the race. The Volant is represented as having crossed it, the Huron...
...most recent birthrate statistics compiled by Mr. John C. Phillips in the current issue of the Harvard Graduates Magazine under the heading "Success and the Birth-Rate". After numerous surveys of broad cross sections of the population the tabulated results have inevitably pointed to a depressing state of race suicide among the classes best fitted sociologically. Mr. Phillips in his most recent study of the question advances along somewhat different lines, aiming at reproduction rates within one particular occupational group, --namely three graduating classes of Harvard College, 1899, 1900, and 1991. His findings, then, offer no hope in an alarming...
...University eight has its last four mile time trial ahead of it tomorrow before the Yale race. Coach Brown has not decided as yet whether he will have it paced or not. If he decides against pacing the University oarsmen, the Seconds, the Combination and the Freshmen will stage a two mile race. Otherwise they will take turns at testing the mettle of the Crimson hopes...
Adam, Biblical father of the human race, was called "that weakling," and Mother Eve "an angel," last week at Belfast, Ireland, by their suppositious descendant Viscountess Astor, famed "First Woman M. P." tireless exhalter of women over...
Epistles: (answering Gladstone's rebuke) ". . . and after all, it may be that 'to ride an unbroken horse with the reins thrown upon his neck'-as you charge me with doing-gives a greater variety of sensations, a keener delight, and a better prospect of winning the race than to sit solemnly astride of a dead one in a deep reverential calm, with the bridle firmly in your hand...