Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unless sufficient is raised by subscription. Besides all this the association should buy new seats for the gymnasium meetings as soon as possible as the wear and tear caused by the bringing of seats in from outside is very injurious to the building. I hope it will be clear to you that for these improvements, outside the regular expenses, the association will be in need of money, and that you will not complain if the price of tickets for the gymnasium meetings is kept as high as it has been in former years. I am aware that complaint was made...
...auditing committee was presented and accepted, show-that the debt of the crew had been paid with a balance of $7.00 remaining. Mr. French received the thanks of the class for his successful management of the crews. The report of the secretary showing the class to be clear of debt was read and accepted and the meeting adjourned...
...Columbia eight a few days ago-a crew that have demonstrated on other waters their excellence-and the overwhelming defeat which she has now administered to the Yale navy easily entitle her to the practical amateur championship of this country. * * A careful review of the race makes it clear that Harvard has at present a crew not alone the best in existence in American Amateur circles, but one that is superior to any she has had in years...
...previous week. At the mile, which Harvard passed in a little over five minutes, No. 4 in the Columbia shell now four lengths behind, caught a crab, in which he was at once imitated by No. 1. By this accident Harvard opened up at least one more length of clear water. When Columbia had recovered she ran up her stroke to 44 a minute, and for a short time held her own, but Harvard with a fine lead pulled without effort and passed the mile and a half flag in 7 minutes, 50 seconds, and crossed the finish line...
...half mile flag Yale was barely a quarter of a length ahead. Yale passed the ball mile in 3:04. In the third quarter Harvard made up all she had lost and began to lead Yale until at the end of the first mile there was a clear boat's length of water between Harvard's rudder and Yale's bow. The fact that Harvard never quickened her stroke from the point when Yale was a length ahead to the point when Yale was a length behind tells the whole story. There was no spurt; it was simply the long...