Word: drop
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...letter has been received in New Haven, that it is not unlikely that Mr. Cook will coach the Yale crew, during a portion of the Easter recess. He has been suffering from the grip in Philadelphia, and has been ordered by his physician, to drop all business cares for a week or two, and remain out of doors. Consequently, it is probable that, notwithstanding his persistent assurances of its impossibility, Mr. Cook will be in the bow of the Yale lauch, during the next fortnight...
...Wheelwright '94. The bar was placed at 8 ft. and no one met any great difficulty till it was raised to 9 ft. 6 in. Here it took Wheelwright two trials and Cartwright three, to clear the bar. At 9 ft. 10 in. Wheelwright was obliged to drop out. Cartwright failed to make the next height and so took second with a jump of 9 ft. 10 in. Crane then did some beautiful vaulting, clearing 10 ft. 4 in., and just barely knocking...
...probably go on the water sometime next week. There are eleven men at work now, ten of whom will be kept to the end. The crew is much better than the average freshman crew. According to a criticism in a New York paper their general fault is that they drop at the full slack and rush their slides. Though it is the duty of both Harvard and Yale to challenge this year, they have not yet done so, and no races have been arranged...
...annual business meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association a week from today. Harvard's representatives will again raise the question as to the advisability of dropping the tug-of-war from the list of events contested for the Mott Haven cup. For a number of years Harvard has been consistent in her advocacy of this reform, and for some time the sentiment has been becoming general among the larger colleges against the tug-of-war. Last year Yale, Princeton and Amherst voted with Harvard to drop by event from the program, but the small colleges and Columbia defeated the motion...
...KINER, 649 Main St. Cambridge. Just what the Harvard men need is a man to call once a week and get their trousers, press them, and return them for 75 cents a month. Drop your card, stating date and hour for calling in the order-box of the Cambridge Cleansing House, at Amee Bros. Book Store, 5 Harvard...