Word: flagging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WITH the hope of adding a new interest to our College races, and of providing a means by which the winning crews may have the record of their victories more certainly insured than by memory or tradition, the Crimson Board at its last meeting voted to offer a silk flag every year to the crew winning the first race; the flag to bear the name of the club to which it is awarded, and to be placed (with the concurrence of the Boat Club) among the flags won by the University crews. By this means it is hoped that...
...reason why base-ball and boating should be sacrificed. Experience has taught us that we have always room for one more interest to support, be it Rifle Club or Athletic Association. If a shingle be prepared, with a seal bearing the device of a crimson flag floating from the North Pole, we have no fears that members more than enough would hasten to join the H. N. P. D. A., Harvard North Pole Discovery Association. The doubt might be raised, to be sure, whether the ardor of the sledgers would not cool by the time they reached the region...
...result of this rule will be that every boat but one will win a flag. Another flag can then be bought, the means being raised by a subscription, and presented to the remaining boat, as being the sole survivor of the N. E. P. R. A. Thus each will have its flag, and all be happy...
...FLAG, fifteen feet long, with Harvard in black letters stamped upon it, has been presented to the University Boat Club for the boat-house...
...Sophomore class of the Vermont University have been suspended and fined $2 each, for disorderly conduct in raising a flag on the college park flagstaff a few nights ago; and the Freshman class have been fined $2 each for cutting the pole down...