Word: flag
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Basin, near the Cambridge Bridge, at 10 A. M. Any canoe not present at that hour may be barred out. Unfortunately the starting point cannot yet be definitely made known. The final arrangements will be announced before 10 o'clock from the Commodore's canoe, which flies a blue flag with white paddles...
...Cleveland and Hendricks Club of Dartmouth expects to have a grand flag raising tomorrow...
...cheers, hisses, and endless pounding on the part of the chairman. The usual request to dispense with the presence of the upper classmen was rebuked by a young gentlemen who gallantly moved to "extend the hospitalities of the room to the upper classmen." Whenever the interest seemed to flag several gentleman were kind enough to add fuel to the fire by moving to adjourn, and the fire blazed up, much to the amusement of all and the distress of the presiding officer...
...crews were known to be in excellent physical condition people expected to see as fine a race as over was rowed on the American Thames. And they were not disappointed. At hald-past two the Yale men were already in their shell and at the starting flag, near the west bank and close to the observation train. Their appearance was greeted with cheers as was also that of our crew a few minutes later, when they came across from their quarters on the opposite bank...
...taking the water at the same time and both rowing 38 strokes to the minute. For a quarter of a mile the crews remained even and the excitement among the spectators was intense. Then slowly by but surely Yale began to draw ahead so that when the first mile flag was passed they had a lead of somewhat less then a length. But already Harvard was pushing forward and Perkins and his gallant crew steadily forced the bow of their shell forward so fast that at a mile and a half from the start they were ahead and still gaining...