Word: fall
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual fall rowing regatta came to an end yesterday afternoon with races between the Freshman dormitory crews and the Thayer and Eliot Club crews. The dormitory eights competed for the Slocum Cup over the lower basin one mile course between the Cottage Farm and Harvard bridges. In a close, hard-fought contest, Standish won the race with a strong finish, one-half a length ahead of Gore, the leader over the first part of the course. Smith came in a good third, a length of open water behind Gore. Standish won the annual race last year, and thus will keep...
...annual regatta of the fall rowing season will continue this afternoon with a race between the first Smith, Gore, and Standish Hall crews, and another between the second crews of those dormitories. They will compete for the Slocum Cup, won last year by the Standish crews, and the members of the winning crews will receive individual medals. The dormitory race will be rowed over the lower basin one mile course between the Cottage Farm and Harvard bridges at 4 o'clock...
...managers of the Freshmen dormi tory crews have been chosen as a result of the work done in the fall managership competition. Scott W. Hovey '21, of Kansas City, Mo., has been appointed manager of the Standish Hall crew; Elmer E. Long '21, of Chicago, Ill., manager of the Gore Hall crew; and Gustave Pabst, Jr., '21, of Milwaukee, Wis., manager of the Smith Halls crew
...known among authors, will speak upon some subject connected with the war and with his recent visit to the trenches. He is well qualified to speak in this regard, having served himself under Kitchener. He enlisted soon after the beginning of the war, and spent six months of the fall and winter of 1914-15 in training at Aldershot, England, in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training for six months, the regiment was sent to France and went into action among the "first hundred thousand." While at the front his ability and courage won him promotion...
...Italian defeat is momentarily assuming graver proportions. With a hundred thousand prisoners taken, and most of the difficult mountain country already passed, there is a lively danger of the fall of Udine, and with this the capture of the Third Army across the Isonzo. Not since the days of the great German advance of August 1914, have the Allies been confronted with so serious a crisis. For should a catastrophe take place, then the way will lie open for the Germans to seize the rich Lombard plain, capture new ports for submarine bases on the Mediterranean, and even menace France...