Word: across
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...announcement of the team match between Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania attracted some fifty spectators to the grounds of the Shooting Club, at Watertown, yesterday afternoon. Barring the wind, the conditions were favorable enough. The wind, however, was a gusty one, blowing directly across the range, and it proved a puzzler to the visitors. The match was begun at 3 o'clock, when the first shot for Harvard was fired. At end of the first round, Harvard had a lead of six birds, which at the end of the second was increased to seven, and then then...
...soon as the crews have passed through the draw a long whistle will be sounded from the referee's tug as a signal for the crews to get into line. There will be a rope stretched across the river to which four boats will be moored at distances of one hundred feet apart. A man in each boat will hold the stern of a shell. As soon as the shells are in line, two whistles will be sounded as a signal for the men to come out to the full reach. The boats will then be started in the following...
...Endicott, Jr., W. Myers, E. Sturgis and P. K. Brown. Myer led for the first 220 yards, at a rattling pace, but Endicott passed him on the last turn and won in 53 1-2 seconds. Myer made a plucky race for second place with Sturgis, and fell across the finish line about a foot ahead...
...roll of paper is slightly unwound at each stroke. A pencil moves across it and its varying motion corresponds to the varying strength of pull. The result of the paper movement and the pencil movement is a curve which faithfully produces the length, strength, and peculiarities in each stroke. The article was written under the auspices of Robert Cooke, and contains cuts of the machine and specimens of curves, including the types of five of the Yale University crew - Caldwell, Stevenson, Stewart, Middlebrook, and Woodruff. Each has his own individualities. The uses of the contrivance were classified as follows...
This is the conservative view of the students at Harvard, who are well aware of their own weak points, and of the strength of their rivals across the seas...