Word: behind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Presidents of the day, and the eldest and most distinguished of the Alumni and their invited guests, to the number of one hundred. By this arrangement, every individual seated in the amphitheatre would face the table at which the president of the day and the principal guests were seated. Behind the chair was an arch covered with white drapery, richly decorated with evergreens and flowers, on which was inscribed "SEPTEMBER 8, 1836," and between the supporting columns were placed the arms of the University...
Appleton Chapel is now being thoroughly renovated; the platform has been extended a little and the first row of benches has been removed. An entirely new pulpit has been put in, and a handsomely painted screen is behind...
...leading the race when it sunk; and the absence of your boating correspondent from Cambridge leads me to believe that the article was not written by an eye-witness, for I was on the nearest boat to the crews when the accident occurred, and the Yale crew was then behind both Columbia and Harvard. It is of course a pity that the race could not have been rowed to a finish; but it is unfair to '89 to deny that she was in the lead when her rival capsized, especially as she is of the opinion that she could have...
...crew average as much as the 'varsity in weight, and number five is the heaviest oarsman in Columbia; - or in any other college for that matter. A few weeks ago they raced the University of Pennsylvania crew at New York, and only came in three or four feet behind in a mile race. Many ascribe their defeat to the poor boat in which they rowed. Their new boat arrived only a short time ago, but the crew have been out in it several times and express themselves as very well satisfied. The crew are seated in the following manner...
...camera seen nothing and records nothing which the human eye, placed it in the same position, would not see; and no man, standing where the instrument stood, could have known who won. A man five yards in front or behind the finish-line frequently thinks the race won by a runner who was a full yard behind. A man 20 or 25 yards away knows nothing at all about a close finish, and the camera knows no more than the man. The writer of this article sat five yards behind the finish line, and thought Sherrill...