Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...June 20th, the rival crews were started. Harvard took the water first, rowing 41 strokes to the minute to Columbia's 34. In the first hundred yards Harvard opened clear water between the shells, and at the half mile flag Columbia was three lengths to the rear. In going to the mile flag the Harvard stroke dropped to 39, 38, and finally to 34, while Columbia hit up the stroke to 36, 37 and 38. At the mile and a half buoy Harvard was eight lengths to the good, and was rowing in splendid form, while Columbia had begun...
...three and a half mile flag, which Harvard passed in 23m. 6s., the Cambridge boat had a lead of eighteen clear lengths. The whistles of the steamers anchored at the finish now began to add their mite to the general uproar, and soon afterwards the saluting guns from the yachts announced Harvard's grand victory. Harvard came over the line in 25m. 15 1-2s., twenty lengths in advance of Yale, who followed...
...benefits which, though unseen, are yet almost key-notes of life, as the force of gravity is the key-note of the life of the universe. To them we may also add the sociableness and friendships, always attendant upon a college career, and the critical nature and power of clear discernment, which seem to belong to college men, and by which a student is so quickly and generally so rightly estimated. Nowhere, more than at college, does a man pass for what he is and for what he is worth. The scholar and the frand alike, the genius...
...correspondent in Thursday's Transcript gave a very clear account of the composition and functions of the several governing bodies of Harvard College. The communication is headed, "Overseers without Powers." The writer says that he makes no attack upon the overseers, "for a bare statement is attack enough." Following is the substance of the article...
...considered. The facts were that Harvard, '87, was willing and anxious to decide the championship by a third game, and that it offered to play on any day named by Yale; that Yale, '87, refused to play a tie game. Under these circumstances, Harvard, '87, had a clear right to claim the third game, and having thus won two games to Yale's one, the freshman championship last year was won by Harvard...