Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...former straining for the lead, and the latter doing steady, strong work. At first Columbia obtained a slight advantage and led by three yards at the railroad bridge; but when the lower bridge was reached, Harvard's slow and steady work had brought her a foot or two ahead, and now this lead was steadily increased. Columbia struggled desperately, and hung on for another half-mile, and up to that point, a little below the first mile-flag, she gave Harvard a hard race. Here the two boats came into dangerous proximity; for a few strokes they rowed over...
...start was made. The crews got away about equally, both settling down to 34 strokes a minute. When the railroad bridge was reached. Harvard had dropped her stroke to 33 1/2; and her bow was slowly and surely coming ahead of Yale's. Yale saw this and quickened her stroke to 35 1/2; but still the Harvard "beef" pounded away at her 33 1/2, and now at the one-mile flag, her stern was even with the Yale bow. Now Yale began to spurt for the corner, and her stroke rose to 38. Harvard responded, and at the two-mile...
...next speaker was Carl Schurz, who, after alluding to the fact that he received last year the degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard, and therefore he was in this point, if not in public station, ahead of President Hayes, and after communicating the interesting news that the present administration intended to smooth the path of the scholar in politics somewhat, paid the following tribute to Professor Lowell...
...agreement had been made by the captains. But it also transpired that the last two runs of the Lowells were made after five, and therefore, according to the strict letter of the agreement, - which the Lowells, before this point was discovered, were vehemently insisting on, since they were one ahead, while from their own statement they would not have stopped had they been behind, - the game should have been thrown back on to the seventh inning or forfeited to us, as our men were willing and anxious to go on. The umpire, however, not seeming to understand all the features...
...enter on Saturday morning, but were debarred by the books being closed the previous evening. There was a good deal of excitement when the two contestants passed the boat-house, on the way up; both were pulling hard and they were rowing pretty evenly, but Goddard soon got ahead, and on turning the stake-boat it was evident the race was his. Mr. Danforth did not pull over the course, leaving the race to Mr. Goddard, who rowed it in 6 minutes 11 1/2 seconds...