Word: checks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...many changes in the boats. On the whole, however, the chances seem to favor Newell, for the men have more unity in their rowing, and keep their blades longer in the water. Weld is inclined to clip the finish of the stroke, and at times there is a noticeable check of the shell between strokes, as the men do not control their slides well. Furthermore, although Weld is decidedly fast over the first part of the course, the boat becomes dead towards the finish. The second Weld crew should win out against Newell second, which has hardly been out twice...
...Memorial Society will give November 26 in honor of the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Harvard, should be sent on or before Saturday to G. G. Glass, Treasurer, Box 11, Cambridge, Mass. All applications should be accompanied by a stamped and addressed envelope, and by a check which will cover the cost of tickets, which will be $2.50 each. The hour of the dinner will be 7 o'clock...
...game to graduates of the University today and tomorrow at 92 State street, Boston, from 12 to 2 P. M. Graduates living at a distance may apply to the Harvard Athletic Association, Cambridge, and all such applications should be accompanied by a stamped and addressed envelope, and by a check for the exact amount of the cost of the tickets. Reserved seats for the game will...
...Abbe pointed out the difficulty of understanding in this country, where toleration has been known so long, the Church and State relations and especially the present attitude of intolerance, which is largely due to the absence of a Supreme Court, which has powers to check the government...
...will have a very beneficial effect on the game. In football the officials have greater latitude than in any other important sport, and there is a correspondingly greater need that the men serving in this capacity should be the best obtainable. Increasing their number to three is a greater check on the players; but by supplementing this check with a carefully chosen body of officials, directly responsible to a central board, a strict and impartial enforcement of the rules is made much more certain...