Word: rood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which provides that the race be started again if the starters fall within 10 yards of the start. This rule is well enough but gives small satisfaction to the man in front whose machine is smashed to bits by a bad starter behind, as in the case of Mr. Rood last year...
...Rood of Columbia lately won a road race on bicycles. The distance was 14 3-4 miles and Mr. Rood rode this distance in 1 hour 4 minutes...
...mile bicycle race there were seven entries. Norton, of Harvard, did not compete, on account of his illne???. One of the contestants made a bad start and in consequence all but Rood, of Columbia, and Hamilton, of Yale, were thrown down. Rood took the lead followed closely by Hamilton. The other competitors again mounted their machines and followed as best they could. Despite the evident unfairness of this, they were allowed to finish the race. Reed of Columbia took third place. On the second lap Reed passed Hamilton and drew up on Rood. On the third lap he passed Rood...
...mile bicycle race Reed and Rood, both '84, will enter. Rood recently beat the best college record, riding the two miles...
...Newberry, in a New York Tribune interview, expresses himself warmly in favor of co-education in Columbia College. "For fifteen years" he says, "a few women have attended the lectures of Professor Rood and myself, and to reach our lecture rooms were compelled to traverse halls and stairways where they encountered a large number of students, and yet they were always treated with perfect respect, and their presence in the lecture rooms made the classes more quiet and attentive because it put them on their good behavior...