Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attention, but now that the freshmen have come out on the river he has no time for this. Kernan has done some coaching from a pair-oar and from the stern of the boat. The crew had been rowing until yesterday with full slides but they have now gone back to strapped seats. The time yesterday was very ragged...
...make-up of the crew seems to be about settled, the only place in doubt being bow, where Rantoul, Little and Gleason have taken turns during the last few days. An experiment was tried last week of putting Watson in as stroke, but yesterday Cornwell was back at his old place. Phelps of last year's crew and Williams who rowed last fall, have both begun work again after a long vacation on account of sickness. The usual order of the men with their weights is as follows...
...contests in football for Harvard means that the game will die so far as that college is concerned. The results that followed the forbidding of games with other colleges in 1885, are a sufficient proof of that to those who have seen Harvard's long, hard struggle to get back to equality with Yale. If it is the purpose of the Faculty to kill the game at Harvard, the means taken will prove most effective...
President Eliot is expected back about April 22. At present he is travelling on the Continent...
...varsity was rowing back to the boat house on a four mile stretch from the Craigie Bridge, they met the sophomores, also going up the river, and a lively race of half a mile ensued. Neither crew gained any decided advantage, though the 'varsity was rowing with strapped seats while the sophomores were using their full slide...