Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...excellent form yesterday afternoon. Leaving the boathouse at 5.30 o'clock the university crew rowed two miles upstream, and, after a short rest, returned in good time. J. W. Curtis, the graduate advisory coach, assisted Coach Kennedy in directing the work. The university four-oar rowed a very even stroke. The freshman crews rowed 1 1-2 miles downstream, starting about 5.45 o'clock. The men rowed well together and seemed to be in excellent condition...
...years' duration was the existence of negro slavery in a democratic republic. The first issue of the war, however, was not slavery, but the maintenance of the Union, the federal compact established under the Constitution of 1787. At the north it was claimed that the Union must be upheld, even with slavery left untouched, or still worse, guaranteed from political extinction in future. At the south it was less confidently claimed that the Union must be dissolved because we had elected a northern president with northern principles,--for the first time since John Quincy Adams' administration, 35 years before...
...spite of all compromises and palliation. He saw that slavery must be destroyed or it would destroy the nation. And he was a man of such intrepid courage that he was willing to undertake in all calmness of mind what in another person would have been insanity. Invincible courage, even in a doubtful cause, is sure to inspire and find applause among other brave men. Thus when we honor you, soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic, and as often as we decorate the graves of your comrades, and your own, as you fall by the way in this...
...half lengths in the time of 10 minutes and 9 1-5s. Notwithstanding the evident superiority of the Cornell crew, Harvard's defeat was due to poor rowing. The men disregarded not only the stroke which they have been taught for the last two months, but even the elementary points of rowing...
...loosely played game, its second in the Inter-University League series, by a score of 3 to 1. The victory of the Harvard team was due to a faster and more concerted attack and to the excellent goal-keeping of Hays. In the first half the game was fairly even. Smith shot two goals for Harvard, however, while the Pennsylvania team was unable to score...