Word: bowsing
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The earth bows' heath golden sway;
It appears that the bone of contention was the inequality of the length of the boats. Harvard's was about five feet longer than Yale's. A start with the bows on a level would cause each Yale man to be behind the corresponding Harvard man, causing the former much...
The colleges comprising the association evidently expect that all the boats will be of the same length, for the crews are to start by their sterns and finish by their bows; as this is the simplest and easiest way of judging a race, this rule will probably remain in force...
The fact that both colleges only wish to row a fair and gentlemanly race, which the diplomatic correspondence of the last two months seems to have endeavored to conceal, at once became evident when the representatives of the colleges met. The evident fairness of the settlement of the question about...
This arrangement is not opened to the objections, brought up during the numerous discussions, to starting the boats by their middle points. The flags will enable the the referee, and even the spectators to judge the position of the boats at the finish as well as when they finished by...