Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boat race, held on Lake George by the crews of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan, Princeton, Cornell and Bowdoin, the last named crew, greatly to the surprise of Bowdoin students, came in behind all the others. The positions at the finish were in the order of the colleges mentioned...
...following comments on the personnel of the Harvard crew are given : "Curtis, slender, intellectual of countenance, as becomes a true Bostonian, who proved last year that a man may lack avoirdupois, wear eye-glasses, and yet row a splendid race, sets the crew a beautiful stroke. Behind him the ponderous Chalfant, with a trunk like Schwartz's and with massive legs and thighs, in boating parlance, "puts plenty of beef into his oar" at every stroke. Then come Hudgens, tall and squarely built; Clark and Hammond, men of height and brawn; Sawyer at No. 2, where he rowed last year...
...morning at about ten o'clock, and four miles in the evening at about six o'clock. The crew is the heaviest that Yale ever put on the water, and, if 'beef' tells, and there's reason to believe that it does, they will not be very far behind Harvard at the finish. Among the members of the crew there is considerable confidence, more so in fact than is either necessary or good for them. The college at large is very non-committal on the subject, and no one seems to have such a decided opinion...
...quarters "first floor up, front." And then, to be sure, she wants to make room for the brightly varnished cradle of her baby sister, '86. Let us hope that '82 has been living so carefully, and has kept her trinkets in such good order that she will leave nothing behind; let her take everything that belongs to her and the very best wishes of the whole college besides. Bon voyage...
...yield to the better form and beef of the now hard-pushed Narragansetts. The 'Varsity rowed at their ease until nearing the end, when they spurted in a beautiful manner with 40 strokes to the minute and crossed the line in 11 min. 30 sec., the Narragansetts 29 seconds behind them, and the freshmen 6 seconds behind the latter...