Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...shove the morning work ahead...
...shore the morning work ahead...
...omitted. The two-mile run was between Bancroft, '78; Raymer, '78; and James, '79. At the start Raymer led, Bancroft was second, and James third. Until the sixth quarter they kept close together, when James took the second position; on the last quarter, James, making a beautiful spirt, pushed ahead and won the race in 12 min. 4 1/2 sec. The next event was a hurdle-race of 120 yards, over ten hurdles, in which entered Rives, L. S.; Keyes, '77; Walker, '77; Thayer, '78; and Van Rensselaer, '79. This was a beautiful race, in which every...
...School, with Otis, stroke; James, 2; Thayer, 3; Yznaga, bow; Herrick, coxswain; - and a third crew consisting of Loring, '78, stroke; Bacon, '75, 2; Taylor, '77, 3; Morgan, '78, bow; Jennison, coxswain. Loring's crew won the race easily in 14 minutes 15 seconds, coming in nearly three lengths ahead of the Union Crew, while the Scientific School men were about four lengths behind the Union. The prizes offered were very handsome silver tankards, and the Union Boat Club showed great generosity in opening the race to crews outside of the club...
...strokes apparently trying for the lead, though it would perhaps have been the best policy for Holyoke, for the crew, not being well together, though made up of men in good training, could not possibly row a stern race, but might do very well with the encouragement of being ahead, and perhaps might discourage or unnerve the crews behind. It is a game not often successful, but is the only one to be tried in such a case. Cambridge tried it this year, and although she did not win, she certainly came near breaking up the time of the Oxford...