Word: weather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bicycle Race-Meet, held Saturday on the Holmes field track, was successful in every respect. The events were well contested and exciting. The weather was fine and the track in very good condition. The track is four laps to a mile and the turns are rather sharp for bicycling, but under the circumstances some of the events were very fast. The meeting was well managed and the events passed off smoothly, and without delay...
With good weather the bicycle meet this afternoon should be a great success and of the utmost interest to all men in college. The Bicycle club has gone to much trouble to arrange this meeting, the first of the kind in the history of our college athletics, and the field of entries is large. In the past year or two bicycling has developed to an astonishing extent at Harvard, and we can boast of several of the fastest riders in intercollegiate athletics. This afternoon the races will be close, and will be doubly interesting from the fact that...
...last year, there has been much hard work done by old members of the Mott Haven team and by the new men trying for places. The meeting this afternoon will, in a measure, show what are our chances of keeping up our reputation in track athletics. If the weather conditions are favorable, the meeting will undoubtedly be successful and some fast time made...
Should the weather necessitate postponement, notice will be sent to the college boat house as early as possible...
...hundred pounds hydraulic pressure. The engine can develope fifty horse power at six hundred revolutions. A speed of six teen miles continuously on a consumption of one hundred pounds of coal an hour is guaranteed. A light canvas awning stretched over a slight galvanized pipe affords protection against the weather, while acurtain stretched across from the after bulkhead to the roof separates the after cockpit from the rest of the boat, and may be used as a state room when cruising...