Word: broken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...supporters encouraged them most enthusiastically, it was of no avail. Harvard had too much reserve power. As the crews neared the three-mile flag, one began to realize that very fast time was being made, and many conjectures were expressed as to whether or not the record would be broken. Harvard was still pulling her 33 strokes a minute, while Columbia, who had reduced her competitors' lead to three lengths, was desperately struggling to crawl up still further. But it was of no avail, and Harvard swept down to the finish amid cheers and yells, thundering of guns, and blowing...
...contribution in yesterday's CRIMSON was very welcome to the college because it attempted to explain away "apparent carelessness." Let us see if it did so. The item of $181 was for a shell broken "August or September," 1886, and belonging to the class of '88. Why a shell should be moved during August or September, and where it was moved to, and who broke it, do not appear in the explanation. Is this "apparent" or real carelessness...
...second item of $181 was for an '88 shell which was broken in August or September, 1886, while being moved according to orders of Captain Keyes. The club in April of this year voted to pay $181 to the '88 crew...
...items of the debt were as follows: E. E. Water & Sons, due on shell, $206.00; '88 class crew, for one half-cost of boat broken in halves by the boat club last year, $181; Boston Tow Boat Company, for lifting launch on and off the cars, $80; class race flags, $50; Gynne & Co., $3; Gordon Dexter, for running expenses of launch last year, $161; C. D. Wilder & Co., $4.75, and $50 due Thomas Fearson on a pair-oared bought...
...Trinity Tablet complains that broken bottles are thrown around the walks of the campus. Whence come these bottles? Since May 1st, we have seen no bottles here...