Word: finishing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...almost every one knows, the N. Y. and N. E. R. R. have agreed to run, on the day of the race, a train of platform cars, furnished with seats arranged in tiers, from the start to the finish. The track runs along the bank of the Thames River, and there are only two or three points in the entire distance where trees or other objects shut out a view of the course. Each car will accommodate about eighty persons. Several cars have already been engaged by gentlemen from New Haven, and we earnestly advise our enterprising men to open...
...Oberlin Review is principally taken up with two four-column articles on "Conscience in History" and "Coleridge and Modern Thought." We confess that we were unable to finish either of them. A prize essay, however, is promised for next time, and we look forward to this with great interest...
...regatta at Silver Lake yesterday, Goddard lost the single-scull race by turning the stake-boat the wrong way. Notwithstanding the delay caused by his turning again, he passed five boats on the home-stretch. The order at the finish was: Holmes first, Houghton second, Goddard third...
...Fourth-Mile-Run. - Entries : W. M. Conant, '79, T. H. Simmons, '80, R. Bacon, '80. Simmons and Bacon had a close race the entire distance. When Simmons was within six yards of the finish he turned his head to see how near was his opponent, threw himself out of his stride, and, tripping, was stunned by a fall within eight feet of the line. Bacon thus won the race...
Bicycle Race. - It is to be hoped that this race will fill well, and that all those who start will finish. A race is never won until you've passed the post, and even if beaten it looks much better to see a man ride his race out pluckily, and not give it up because he is not ahead...