Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...member of the Bicycle Club proposes to try a Star bicycle, i. e., with the little wheel in front...
...Tuesday afternoon the Tennis Tournament revived slightly. In the singles, Presbrey defeated Sawin and then Pierson, thus winning the right to play the final set against Wheel-wright or Curtis today. In the doubles Hoyt and Taylor defeated Presbrey and Sawin, and by drawing a bye win a place in the finals. Their opponents are one of the following pairs...
...make their influence felt on the side of justice and honor which lack sadly now-a-days the support of educated men. Now and then a young graduate rises above the superb indifference that is the accepted type of the Harvard man today, and puts his shoulder to the wheel and blocks corrupt legislation as at Albany, or makes a ringing crusade as The "Nation" and is generously rewarded with the praise of all collegians. The worst of it all is so many men who could take an honorable place in politics or in diplomatic circles are content to applaud...
...bicycle seems to be growing popular among the faculty. Professor Cook has long been a rider, but the latest conquerors of the wheel are Prof. J. W. White and Dr. James, the latter of whom rides a tricycle...
...Sunday, August 12th. Hasty preparation had been made for such an emergency and some of the life preservers had been secured. I think that Mr. Hawkins was drowned at once and died without struggle. Probably the same is true of Mr. Bartlett. Leicester Sargent was undoubtedly at the wheel and was heartily dressed on account of the weather and in the confusion had no time to prepare himself for the sudden dropping of the boat and was carried down with her. Rupert Sargent had secured a life preserver, which he hastily adjusted to himself, but being dressed and finding...