Word: two
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first contest was the run of two hundred cubits, and many athletes contended, tall and strong, and there was much rivalry among them...
...must decline your challenge, appreciating, however, the compliment; but will here say that I am quite ready, if my college is challenged and wishes me to row, to do so for the championship of the two colleges. I am respectfully yours...
...answer to this communication has been received from New Haven, and the Yale Navy apparently have taken no action in the matter; but it is certainly a desirable thing to have a single-scull race for the championship of the two colleges, and there could be no better time for it than the week of the University race at New London. If any decision in this matter is to be reached this summer it ought to be made at once, to enable the contestants to make the necessary preparations. As Mr. Livingston has taken the first step, it is only...
...after this there was the walk of eight stadia, in which three youths contended; but lest, perchance, running they should escape notice, the judges followed in a chariot, drawn by two bay chariot-horses. And one, walking swiftly, was first by far; but the third, tall indeed and large as to his limbs, being left far behind, returned by a road, the shortest possible, among swamps and ditches; and the spectators with much laughter welcomed him climbing over the barrier; nor did any one know, what suffering, he did these things...
...thereupon, then, followed the contest of leaping over barriers while running; and two contending, the swiftest conquered, as was likely...