Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...another to suggestions for learners. Advice about riding and racing, and information in regard to the laws and courtesies of the road, take up the next chapters. A list of thirty-nine routes, most of them in the vicinity of Boston, is given, and tables of the fastest time on record for all distances. Chapter eleven contains a model constitution for a bicycle club, and an excellent index ends the book. We have no doubt that this work will have a large sale...
...errors by Hopkins, gave Harvard one more run in the seventh. Nunn, Howe, and Winsor made base-hits in the eighth, and, aided by errors of Hopkins and Camp, three runs were scored, two of which were earned. The sympathizers of the blue felt a little shaky about this time, and it was with great satisfaction that they beheld Harvard retired in striking order in the ninth. The last part of the inning was played rather loosely by our Nine, Yale making no less than five base-hits, earning two runs, and scoring four...
...Freshman crew have the glorious reputation of having made the worst time on the river. The men in the bow seem to be unable to get over the trick of looking out of the boat for admirers...
...want of confidence in the integrity and administrative ability of the present Board, there is no surety that the same may be said of all boards in future. When the management of a large amount of property is confined to a small circle of men for a long time, they are liable to become negligent and to forget their position as the holders of public trusts...
...boat not on the line five minutes after the time named shall be liable to be disqualified...