Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...M.I.T. sailed for ahead in a moderate but steady easterly wind, gaining 141 points in 13 races, Brown, Williams, and Dartmouth fought for second. The Harvard entries, however, outscored all except Tech on Sunday in a vain effort to recoup their Saturday losses...
...Brown edged out Williams for second with 110 points to 109 after a protest against Williams in the twelfth race. Dartmouth came in fourth with 105 points...
Placing a very poor fifth with 19 points after the first day's racing, with Tech and Brown tied for second, the Harvard crews, consisting of James A. Ronsmaniere '40, skipper, John H. Cunningham, Jr. '39, crew, and John N. Fulham, Jr. '40, skipper, and Thomas Bullfinch '40, crew, made a comeback in the next nine races, nearly overtaking Princeton, which had 101 points. They slipped to sixth when the Tech-Brown tie was broken...
...with the entire confidence of the undergraduate body, and from the records of the Harvard and Yale teams every indication pointed to a Harvard victory. Up to this time our season had been very successful, while Yale had suffered two defeats, one by West Point and the other by Brown. However, Harvard was unable to win, the game resulting in a scoreless tie, which under the circumstances seemed almost impossible. Harvard showed herself to be stronger, but could not get the ball over the line...
TIME's account [April 4] of the execution of a small reddish-brown pig at San Quentin. Calif, was incorrect. The pig actually dropped unconscious, never to rise again, in twenty seconds and in all probability it was dead within a minute...