Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short time ago Harvard University refused a $60,000 gift that had been left by Dr. J. Ewing Mears for the study of eugenics-the science of improvement of the human race. Dr. Mears was especially interested in the treatment of defectives and criminal classes. Newspaper experts about the country took it upon themselves to question the wisdom of Harvard's actions. The editorial writers in every section of the United States could see no good reason for refusing the generous offer...
...University crew has rowed two brief time trials in front of the Newell boathouse to test the comparative speed of the Pocock shell which it rowed in the triangular race, and the new Lutz boat. They rowed a little more than a third of a mile each time, first in the Pocock and then in the Lutz, and they rowed the distance about a second faster in the latter shell...
...recently presented to the University as a present by R. F. Herrick '90, and made by Pocock, the famous boat builder who has supplied shells for the victorious Washington State eights for a number of years past. If Lake Cayuga is smooth tomorrow at the time of the Cornell race, the University may row the new Lutz boat, but if the water is at all rough the crew will row the shell it is used...
...Crimson crews, the University and the Seconds, pulled out for New York State last night and will row on Lake Cayuga this morning and afternoon in preparation for the race tomorrow. The eights realize that they have a hard task ahead of them at Ithaca. Cornell boast eight of the most powerful oarsmen in the East and two miles is their distance...
...race last week by which the McKinlock oarsmen wrested the championship from the other dormitory eights, they covered the three quarter mile course in 4 minutes 7 seconds. This is better time than is done usually by the University eights for the first three quarters of a mile in a two mile race...