Word: finished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show a Harvard superiority that was challenged by the Blue last fall over the new Eli course, but which displayed the strength of the Crimson teams. Over the Charles River course in 1925 W. L. Tibbetts '26 led R. G. Luttman '28 and E. C. Haggerty '27 across the finish line and the one-two three order of those runners brought the Crimson a total of 20 points, while Yale tralled with 47, and Princeton with 66. Last fall Smith and Briggs of Yale showed the pack home, but J. L. Reid '29, Haggerty and Leslie Flaksman '29 followed...
...experiment from start to finish, the "success" of the Floating University was a subject for much confused palaver. There were disgruntled ones who said that 75 women, from very young to quite elderly, should never have been taken along with 400-odd young males. They were hindrances and distractions, said the grumblers. They were hard to care for ashore, admitted the administration, and co-eds would not be enrolled again this autumn...
...called on account of rain. The University golfers downed Union 5 to 1 while the tennis team was ahead 2 to 0 in its clash with M. I. T. when the deluge, which descended last yesterday afternoon, drenched the courts and made it impossible for the other players to finish their matches...
...Harvard Bridge the Sophomores led by a length, with the Juniors the same distance ahead of the 1927 crew. Just beyond this point, however, the Sophomores pulled steadily away. The Seniors hung on to the Juniors' redder until the Henley, but then fell back. At the finish the 1929 crew led the Juniors by four lengths, with the 1928 shell three lengths ahead of the Seniors...
...swallow dry toast, regird their loins and start jog-jog-jogging again. Only the fools sprint. It is 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to Manhattan, where a $25,000 prize, fat vaudeville contracts and the plaudits of a multitude await the first super-marathoner to stagger across the finish line within 100 days of the starting pistol crack...