Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crews until now have been staging short races, each lasting about two minutes, among themselves. There is a possibility, however, that there will be a longer race today on a straight stretch up the river...
Swimming in the annual New England A. A. U. championships at the Brookline Public Baths last night, W. S. De Lima '31 clipped nine seconds off his own record for the senior men's 500-yard free style race when he thrashed the distance in 6 minutes 18 1-5 seconds. George Shinney of the Boys' Club of Boston, who finished second to De Lima, was lapped by the victorious Harvard Sophomore...
...Lima won the 500-yard championship last year, and it was his own mark made in the 1928 race which he eclipsed in last evening's performance...
Princeton has a new claim to distinction. Recently the Alumni Weekly discovered that the graduates of the New Jersey university have spent more years in the White House than those of any other institution in the country. The race for this honor was close, with the Tiger's victory depending upon a half year's margin over Harvard. But a win obviously is a win, and the prize goes to Princeton...
...Collins, 2OI½ Ibs., British, clumsy, looked down at one of his large feet last week and perceived that he had stove it right through the racing shell in which he and seven other Cambridge undergraduates were preparing to row, next week, against Oxford. He, the stroke, was stricken with mortification and dismay. Sticking your foot through the shell at rowing is equivalent to trampling a hound in a hunt or blowing off your neighbor's hat at a grouse shoot. Fortunately for Cambridge, a new shell had already been ordered. When a shell was damaged in 1906 just...