Word: racing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While a strong Freshman heavy-weight crew remains inactive until April 25, the freshman lightweights will enter the lists this afternoon against Cornell and M.I.T. in their first race of the season...
...Registry was one of the first University housing offices to refuse to list the rooms of discriminatory landlords. Last October the University required every landlord requesting the Registry's aid to sign a statement saying he would rent to any University employees or students "regardless of their race, creed, color, or nationality...
...coaches feel that a freshman crew must row 300 miles before it begins to reach its potential, and that they must row this distance before their first race. At the present time the Freshman have only logged 225 miles, and rowing an average of forty a week the lightweights should have a fortnight of practice before their first competition. Unfortunately it comes today...
Though slighted on practice time the lightweights' prospects are not as bad as they would seem. The first boat, set at least for today's race, has recorded some good times considering the late conditions. Stroked by Tom Alberg, the eight clocked the mile and a sixteenth upstream course in seven minutes, four seconds on Wednesday...
...lightweights enter today's race with one compensation. Cornell has also been forced to cancel two weeks of river work, and is consequently at a comparable stage of development. Like all un-untried freshmen opponents, Cornell and M.I.T. are unknown quantities...