Word: slower
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feel no little regret at not having received a prospectus of this new edition, whereby we might learn it special superiority to the old, but having only the old regulations before us, we cannot venture to recommend the recent version. We merely urge upon all that they be no slower to censure than they are to praise; and if treated in this fair way, we believe that the regulations will live or die as they deserve...
...strong wind which was blowing made fast time an impossibility, but Dean held to it pluckily and made the two miles in 6 minutes, 37 seconds, 20 seconds less than the college record which was made by Kohler of the University of Pennsylvania last week, and 8 seconds slower than Dean's record of last spring...
...this event, among them being Roberts, Brandt and Root, of Harvard; Smith, Columbia; Faries, '85, U. of P. Roberts took the lead and set the pace for the first quarter at 1m. 7s. During the second lap Roberts and Brandt, who were leading, slowed up, and set a much slower pace, 1m. 22s. This decided the race, for Smith and Faries, not in as good training as our men, but having more speed, were enabled to keep within a short distance of the leader until the last half of the last lap, when they raced home, both beating Roberts...
QUARTER MILE RACE.W. Baker, '86 was the only starter and got off like an arrow. His time for the 220 yards was 23 1 2s, but the high rate of speed on the irst lap compelled him to run slower for the last lap. However he spurted on the home stretch and covered the distance in 50 1-4s., three-twentieth of a second less than Brooks, who previously held or lad therecord of 50 2 5sec. This was the third record broken at the meeting and Baker's beautiful running won long and continued applause, not only...
...line three lengths ahead amid the salutes of cannons on the yachts and the cheers of the people on the grand stand Their time was 20 minutes, 31 seconds, the best ever made. Fifteen seconds later Harvard swent across the line having covered the distance in time only slower by a second than the previous best record. Our crew rowed a remarkably fine race, especially when the necessary changes in personnel made so few days before the race are taken into consideration, but the Yale crew was too much for them as they were, and noe we can only wait...