Word: finish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...horse-shoe shaped structure of steel, somewhat like the stadium at Athens, with seats of stone concrete seating about 27,000 persons. Within the stadium will be the football gridiron, surrounded by an oval running track 440 yards in length, as well as a straight-away track the finish of which will be in the bow of the horseshoe. The outer wall of the stadium will be of brick, in which at frequent intervals arches will be cut, rorming entrances to the seating benches. Owing to the fact that the entrances to the seats will be from the back...
McGrew stroked the Newell Seniors, and the general work of the crew showed improvement. The chief defect of all the crews is the shortness of the stroke and the lack of drive at the finish. The Freshman crews have good material, but the men have been unusually slow in becoming accustomed to the work on the water. The orders are still undecided, except that of the Newell Seniors, which is for the present fixed as follows: Stroke, McGrew; 7, Ayer; 6, Foster; 5, Haycock; 4, Stevens; 3, James; 2, Stone; bow, Boardman; cox., Litchfield...
...Newell Senior crew did not row yesterday afternoon, but the squad was sent out in singles in order to practice the finish of the stroke and a slower recovery. All the other crews from both clubs rowed on the river with practically the same orders as during the past week. As yet the development of the various crews has been very slow and on this account it is impossible to estimate their ability. The Freshmen, in particular, have made very little progress, owing to the fact that they have not yet become accustomed to the water...
Professor Wendell has finished half his course of lectures on English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, and is traveling in the south of Europe and in Egypt. He will return to England in the spring to finish his lectures...
...know of five men in one entry of one of the Yard buildings who are Juniors this year, intending to finish their college work this year and go to the Law School next year. At least four of them wished a Yard room solely because of the opportunity it would give them Class Day. It is now too late for them to be transferred to the Senior Class even did they wish to change. Yet these men are to be driven from their rooms during their Senior year, for the benefit of some men now possibly sub-Freshmen...