Word: finished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Doesn't get his shoulders on. Gets a weak finish. Should put more life into his work. Rows as if he were half asleep. Must work more from his stretcher...
Stroke - Must be careful not to hang. Settles at the finish. Should keep a good grip with outside hand...
...ended at 7 p.m., being delayed by the "perverseness of the crowd, and the inability of the Medford police to keep them back." The Harvard nine went on to the field with their "tails up," took the lead at the start and kept it to a finish, blanking Lowell three times. The audience was partisan and disgusted with the game, and several times pushed into the diamond and stopped the playing. At one time, during the sixth inning, there was a long intermission for a fight between two egotistic and excited bystanders; cause of fight unknown, ditto, result." All this...
Robert Cook, Yale's crack boating coach of many years standing, has been tendered a complimentary dinner by a large number of the sons of that college in recognition of his great services in many a boat race at which Yale was first at the finish. It is well, but we submit that the other gentlemen, professors and tutors, who have also done their best by the institution ought not to be discriminated against. Can any good reason be assigned why - for instance - the worthy occupant of Yale's chair of Moral Philosophy should not be invited by appreciative alumni...
...Peabody will finish his term of Prayers on Wednesday, 26th, and Dr. McKenzie will conduct them on and after Thursday, 27th...