Word: entering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...five events; of the remaining, the running broad jump had no entries and the other four but one each. Yielding to the wishes of the other members of the Executive Committee, I left open the entries until noon on Friday, when by going about and begging men to enter we succeeded in filling all the events but one. Notwithstanding this dearth of entries, there were two men who wished to enter just as the events were about to begin. One of them, and his reasons I could appreciate but not comply with, said it was not convenient...
...member may enter for any sports which are not confined to amateurs, nor compete with professionals for prizes...
...tiresome. There are three new features this year; a single-scull race for men who have not rowed for the college championship; a handicap of six seconds or less in the Senior scullers' race; and a race for Freshmen in sixes. It is hoped that men will enter in both the scullers' races, and particularly in the Junior race, and not be too diffident of showing their prowess. Allowance of time will be given to the heavier canoes, and it is to be hoped that this race will prove a more interesting feature than it was last year...
...Freshman Entry-Book will be kept open until Saturday morning to allow every opportunity for men to enter. At the present writing only four names appear on its pages, and if '82 do not come to time better, we shall fear that they are on a par with the upper classes in muscular inactivity...
...still an unbroken expanse. It should be remembered that any man who can stay on his machine has a chance in this race, and that he will have a half-mile start if that is necessary to equalize him with the scratch man. Let no one despair, therefore, but enter his name anyhow, and, if not satisfied with the handicap, no one is obliged to start. Out of thirty bicycles said to be in college, surely six or eight men can be found willing to enter. Every time a man is beaten he gets a longer start in the next...