Word: ending
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...understand from the officers of the H. A. A. that the regular fall meeting will take place as usual, at the end of next month or at the beginning of November. If Jarvis or Holmes Field are inaccessible, Beacon Park can be used for the sports. - EDS. CRIMSON...
AGAIN the annual duty devolves upon us of recording the going of the old class and the coming of the new; again we are reminded of the mutability of college life, its aims, its pleasures, and its end; and again we feel the weight of our responsibility in counselling wisely the "men" who have been intrusted by anxious parents to a foster-mother's care. Though the class of '78 exerted an elevating and manly influence on the college, and were characterized by good scholarship as well as by conviviality, they will be missed more as individuals than...
...HARVARD has crossed the line (time, 20 min. 44 3/5 sec.), Yale is expected every minute," was the telegram despatched from the finish to the start at the end of the fourth race of eight-oared University crews in America...
...word was given, but the Yale men seemed to have perceived by intuition that it was coming, and got under way a second or two before Harvard. But our men were off the next instant, and made the smooth paper shell literally jump through the water. At the end of the sixth stroke they were fairly ahead of Yale, and the rest of the race showed only a constant increase of the distance between the two boats...
...end of the first quarter-mile Harvard was rowing 36 to the minute, and Yale was three lengths astern, pulling 33. Yale kept a slow stroke during the entire race, and it was evident to any one who watched their rowing that they had not broken themselves of a bad habit of pausing, or "hanging" at the beginning of the stroke. For the next half-mile Harvard kept the same stroke; but at the end of the third quarter, when the crimson was four lengths ahead of the blue, they slackened to 34 strokes per minute, while Yale was rowing...