Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which they retained to the mile buoy, where the freshmen spurted and drew up nearly even with the leaders. From this point to the finish the race was a series of hotly contested spurts, the seniors, in spite of their want of training, gamely answering with an increase of speed each time their opponents attempted to take the lead. '83 crossed the line about three-quarters of a length ahead. No time was taken, as the judges at the finish neglected to stop their watches. The race was a hard one for the seniors, who have trained less than...
...been lost. Ten A. M. and five P. M. always find the crew pulling over their course in the harbor. Beyond their work in the boat the crew take no other important exercise. They are all in fine condition, and pull the boat through the water with speed that augurs well for them in the race at New London. Their diet has been more liberal than heretofore. In matters of drink they are limited to water, iced tea and milk. The stroke will be the same as that pulled last year. It is the common belief among the boating...
...pump, about half way down the course, '83 and '85 still kept up their moderate rate of speed, while '84 at this point made a spurt, and seemed to draw up rapidly on the seniors, but the latter had evidently been waiting for this, and now having reached the smooth water for which they had been steering, they quickened their stroke, and threw their whole weight on to their oars. The result was immediately apparent, for they seemed to glide away from their opponents at a rapid rate. The sophomores and freshmen were still struggling for last place, with...
...prize ring, would be termed "bard" gloves, often with the addition of brass knuckles. The wrestling was correspondingly rough, and, in regard to the running, we have often heard of the men who dropped dead at the end of their race. The Greeks used to run at an alarming speed. As far as we can tell from the records, they made their longest run, three miles, in about ten minutes, and they were accustomed to make a running jump, with dumb-bells, off a spring board of between forty and fifty feet. Possibly such deeds might kill...
...following-named men have been elected members of the Pi Eta from '84 : E. E. Allen, W. S. Barnes, Good-speed, H. H. Kendall, Miles, Moore, Walker...