Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...yards dash was run in six heats. O. W. Shead '93 won the second, E. D. Bloss '94, the fourth, and G. R. Fearing '93, the fifth. The time of each heat was 3 1-5 seconds. In the finals of the dash the contestants were all Harvard men-Blow, Fearing and Shead. Bloss ran away from his competitors and won the last handicap in just three seconds, Shead was second...
...question of allowing the H. A. A. either to go to New York this spring, or to take part in no college track athletic matches. If the latter course were pursued, track athletics would suffer a blow as severs as did football in the year when Harvard was allowed to play no matches. The athletic committee, therefore, in order to maintain its principle of injuring no branch of athletics at Harvard, has taken the only course open...
...chance to advise the under-graduates on athletic questions,-graduates were not wanted, and were put aside so often that finally the students were left to themselves. The result everyone knows. Our teams lost all that years of previous work had gained; they have never recovered from the blow they received when certain men, sure that they knew all there was to know, refused to take the advice of their elders. The unwisdom of that old way is perfectly understood now. Graduates are urged to come out here and to give our teams the benefit of their experience. We have...
...have taken part in all the changes of the past thirty years, the present proposal seems to threaten to destroy by one blow all that has been gained during that period by the persistent labor of a whole generation of scholars. The present senior year may fairly be said to represent the net gain in scholarship which Harvard College has made since 1860; and if this year is lost we must begin again at the foot of the long and toilsome hill which we have slowly climbed...
...Harvard must be both surprised and grieved to hear that for some as yet unexplained reason the petition of the boat club to employ Mr. Bancroft as a coach was refused. We consider this to be a great blow to the boating interests of Harvard and particularly unfortunate just now when we seem to be almost at our wits' end. For weeks the CRIMSON has remained silent on this subject being unwilling to announce any rumors, but we have patiently waited until the time should come when the welcome news that the petition had been granted could be published...