Word: finish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stroked by French was given a handicap of five seconds; Shepard's and Farley's crews started even. Owing to the accident to the rudder; Farley's boat ran ashore at the second bend below the start. Shepard's crew has already taken a slight lead and at the finish was but a quarter-length behind French's boat...
...usual, the general audience incited the actors to greater efforts, which received repeated applause, and the play went more smoothly. The correcting of one or two awkward groupings, however, and more attention to facing the audience, should contribute to the finish of tonight's performance...
...picked crew from the University squad will race Cornell on the Charles river. This will take the place of the usual second crew race at Ithaca, and is the first inter university race ever held on the Charles river. The start will be at the Longwood bridge, and the finish at the Union boathouse, making a 1 and 7-8 mile course...
...schedule in the intercollegiate basketball series, and closed the season in second place. Although at one time the team had some chance of winning the championship, its defeat by Columbia on March 1 by the score of 24 to 21 allowed its opponent to maintain the lead and finish i first place. The game was without doubt the most exciting match ever played on the Yale floor, as Yale held the lead at the end of the first half, 13 to 11. On Friday the university team lost in the last game of the season to Cornell at Ithaca...
...Yale team was nearly a minute under last year's time and established a new track record. Yale took the lead from the start and gradually increased it from ten yards at the end of the first relay to almost three-quarters of a lap at the finish. The race with Pennsylvania was closer. By the end of the second relay Harvard was about seven yards behind and the last two men were unable to cut down this lead, the last Pennsylvania runner, Taylor, finishing about eight yards ahead of Dives. In the individual contests J. S. Bell...