Word: final
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plan of sending proctors to the different preparatory schools to conduct the preliminary and final examinations for entrance to Harvard, is one which has much to commend it. To come to Cambridge for the purpose of taking these examinations, requires an expenditure of time and money which, in the case of students at the more important of our preparatory schools, is now entirely obviated by the new plan...
...last year, gave nine hearty cheers. The eight rowed back and forth the length of the straight stretch of the river in front of the house at about thirty-three strokes to the minute. Then pausing near the coal wharf they stripped off their ferseys and prepared for a final spurt past the crowd of spectators. This time the men in the boat, urged on by the loud cries of their coxswain, fairly made their shell jump through the water, and this exhibition of speed was greeted by nine cheers repeated several times. On they went, still spurting finely...
...Dartmouth should be won by our nine. In case Harvard does prove victorious, we have the chance of beating the Yale team a week from Saturday and tying with it for first place. Such a fortunate combination of circumstances as this would afford us an opportunity of winning a final game from our New Haven rivals, and so of gaining at length the much-coveted championship. We go over this matter briefly in order that the case may be clear to every one. Now, every student knows that with a good hearty backing the nine will play a far better...
...believe that this game conclusively proves that Harvard can win the final game if the present steady play be kept up. Therefore, in the midst of the rejoicing, we add this word of caution, that '87 can win, but that if they do win, they must work for it honestly and faithfully...
...final selection of the men who will row in the Columbia University eight has been made as follows : Bow, Dempsey, School of Law; 2, Berkins, School of Law; 3, Hart, '86, School of Arts; 4, Meikleham, '86, School of Arts, captain; 5, Beckwith, '87, School of Mines; 6, Lawrence, '86, School of Arts; 7, De Witt, '86, School of Arts; stroke, Peet, School of Medicine; coxswain, H. S. Dormitzer. The crew is an entirely new one, no one of them ever having rowed before in the university boat. The five men from 3 to 7, inclusive, were members of eighty...