Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lawrence's first appearance in the stroke seat since the selection of the first and second crews a month ago and his shift from bow to stroke caused him some inconvenience at first. He managed, however, to send the eights ahead with about the same amount of rythm as his rivals for the position and he may accustom himself to the shift if he is given a slightly longer stay in the stern. Harrison has been rowing at stroke for nearly a week and his success at driving the crews marks him as one of the strongest of the many...
...desires. He gives himself freely to it. The People wants pictures, and many a picture of Publisher Macfadden it has seen. The people wants human interest stories and many a story it has read about Publisher Macfadden, his wife and their many lusty offspring. The Macfadden publications are not ahead of the People or behind the People; they are of the People...
Said he: "When a man grows old as I have, he then feels like resorting to profanity, as he ought not to do, at the misconception of life and the use of the universities by feather-headed young men that don't look ahead to know the opportunities they have and to appreciate these opportunities. ... I don't want to criticize athletics or a great many extra-curriculum duties, but I think there is a great deal of time and money wasted on these things. . . . We must get our public and private schools down to a simpler curriculum...
...Newell Boathouse. The oarsmen kept up a steady beat of about 28 for the first two miles and raised it gradually to sprinting finish during most of the final half mile. The row took about 15 minutes and the first eight was about three quarters of a length ahead at the finish with P. H. Watts '31 rowing a slightly higher beat than Harrison of the Jayvees...
...another double winner taking first in the mile and in the two mile. The canny Harvard leader try to pull J. O. Wildes '29 and Leslie Flaksman '29 over the finish line behind him in the two events respectively, and, failing in this, was extended to finish ahead of Rick in the mile and Butterworth in the two mile, a pair of Green dark horses who fooled the experts by their running...