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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Sixteen competitors started at Harvard Bridge with Withington leading. Nelson followed him closely and gained slowly. At the three-quarter mile mark he had drawn up abreast but caught a crab which checked him so badly that he crossed the line two lengths behind Withington. At the finish Nelson was less than a length ahead of C. W. Peabody '12. R. S. Parker '12, the winner of the race last year, finished a length behind Peabody...
...Freshman crew won the Beacon Cup Regatta for class crews yesterday afternoon, finishing a scant half-length ahead of the second Freshman eight after a hard race. The Juniors were third, two lengths behind the second Freshmen, and a length ahead of the Seniors. The second Sophomores were fifth and the Sophomores last...
Arrangements have already been made for erecting the stands and pictures of the Senior and Freshman classes will be taken behind Memorial Hall next Tuesday. The Senior picture will be taken at 1.30 o'clock and the Freshman group at 2 o'clock. All Seniors should wear their caps and gowns. 1911 PHOTOGRAPH COMMITTEE...
...Wednesday the handicaps were increased, the second eight receiving two lengths and the Freshmen three. In the first half-mile the University crew had drawn up even with the Freshmen, passing the second. At Harvard Bridge the Freshmen were half a length behind, and dropped out of the race, the second Freshman crew taking it up at this point. A half-mile from the finish the second University crew dropped out, being at that time three lengths behind. The second Freshman eight gave the University a hard race, finishing only a length behind...
...like the Rhodes scholar abroad, wishes above all to learn something about other standards, manners, and customs during the few years spent in our colleges. He is peculiarly receptive to every impulse, though, naturally, modest and awkward in asserting himself in the strange society in which he is placed. Behind this reticence he feels that he would really be gaining what he came for if he could count a circle of American friends, with whom he might to some extent at least participate in ordinary social intercourse...