Word: rides
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...National Cyclists' Union employ detectives to see that racers ride "square" when on the track, and anyone detected doing otherwise is immediately suspended from the Union. It might be a good thing if something of that kind were done in this country...
...those owning bicycles can join the Bicycle Club either at 10 Grays, or 16 Weld. It is hoped that a large number of riders will go to Newburyport on Saturday. The ride will be taken slowly and the roads are good...
...hares must keep to carriage roads, but in the first three miles of the course are allowed to take parks and avenues, both ride able...
...start was to be made, bicycles were seen coming from all sides towards University, and at a few minutes after five 23 members rode slowly out of the yard. The route lay through Mt. Auburn and Belmont to Arlington. Here the moon rose and the rest of the ride to Lexington was made very beautiful by the moonlight. At Lexington the club rode slowly through, round the common, and back to the Russell House, which, together with several private houses in Lexington was decorated with Chinese lanterns in honor of the club. Here, after a few minutes rest the club...
...Sanders Theatre on "Parlementarismus" in Germany. The failure of Germany to play a leading part in the politics of the world has been in a great measure due to the somewhat chaotic condition of her own political system. The saying, "Place Germany in the saddle and she can ride" is theoretically true, but the exertions of Bismarck and others of her leading statesmen to do so, has not been such as to wholly justify the assertion. That such is the state of affairs is no doubt accounted for in part by the fact that a system of indirect political suffrage...