Word: recording
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ydnears, a are now really a crew, instead of merely an agglomeration of oarsmen. Cornell wraps her as yet unselected men in the glory of her history, and claims that they will be worthy successors to the winners of 1875 and 1876, while Harvard proudly points to the record and experience and actual ability of her veteran crew. This difference of opinion can be settled in one way, and in one way only, - by a race...
...Greenpoint Athletic Club held a field meeting Nov. 9, in which the handicapper distinguished himself more than the contestants. The following record of his blunders is clipped from the Spirit of the Times. We print it as showing the blunders that are frequently made in giving men distance...
WATCHMEN'S boxes have been placed on all the College buildings. They are so constructed that the watchman must wind them up at certain prescribed intervals during the night or they will record his negligence...
...hundred and twenty. In many of the other races better time would have been made, undoubtedly, had the best man had some one more nearly his equal to push him; but in the races mentioned above, the contestants being all good men, the result was a record in each case not only exceptional for Harvard but creditable for any American college. We cannot help reverting to the tardiness with which men enter their names. It was, we believe, with the intention of breaking up this bad habit that the plan of having secret entries was adopted. Men used to hang...
...Yards. - A best on record in any country was made by W. P. Phillips, scratch, in a handicap at the London Athletic Club grounds, Sept. 28. The time...