Word: counter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...boats was steadily diminished during the rest of the race, Harvard did not again pass Wesleyan. Williams had meantime surprised everybody by taking the lead of the rear-guard, followed by Dartmouth, Cornell, Trinity, and Princeton last, whose time was twenty-five seconds longer than her Freshman time. Counter claims of foul were immediately entered by Harvard and Yale, and Wesleyan claimed foul rowing on the part of Columbia. Columbia was jubilant, as well she might be. Her crew had pulled a noble race, making the splendid time of 16 m. 42 1/4 s., which is not official, but probably...
...marched, and we whaled, and we counter...