Word: behind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Farm Bridge, the Freshman crew winning by a length. The 1918 boat jumped into the lead at the start, and at the halfway mark was a length and a half ahead of the Junior. In the final spurt the Junior boat gained about half a length, finishing a length behind...
...best policy. Star playing by the candidates has been carefully guarded against by an arrangement of the point credit system, whereby every offender will be remorselessly docked, and any pitcher who inadvertently strikes out the president or managing editor will be summarily fired. A water-hazard has been placed behind first base to make the game more interesting. At the time of going to press last night, Umpire Ingram announced that three strikes would...
...Advocate, if we may judge from Professor Meyer's outburst, has become the sinister agent behind new international bad blood. The Advocate recently held a small prize contest for undergraduate poets, which was won by a piece entitled "Gott Mit Uns." Professor Meyer, unfamiliar with conditions here, has hurriedly judged this poem to be a "violation of neutrality," and has taken it to be representative at once of the well-determined sentiments of the gentlemen who pronounced it good verse, of President Lowell, and of Harvard...
...University baseball nine will meet Maine this afternoon on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock. Coach Sexton will probably start the game with Frye in the box and Mahan in centre field, while Harte will be behind the bat. Reed will start at shortstop in spite of the slight trouble he has had with his knee...
...centre, J. P. Coolidge '16 and C. E. Brickley '15 have been fighting it out, with the advantage probably with the latter, but on account of their hitting power, pitchers E. W. Mahan '16 and R. B. Frye '15 may at any time displace the regular fielding candidates. Behind the bat, J. B. Waterman '15 seems to be the favorite, for his steadiness and experience thus far have overshadowed the superior batting eye and stronger throwing arm of R. Harte...