Word: flags
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...finish line is the imaginary prolongation of the face of the brick wall on the west side of Otter street, Boston. Shells will cross this line between Beacon street and the judges boat, which will bear a flag...
...Woodbury '89 continued the negative. He thought that a navy is imperatively needed to inspire respect for our flag and representatives abroad; that it is needed as a training school for seamen, as at present we have almost no American seamen...
...realize that men who have been in college three years longer than you have a right to live. Of your goodness give us a little piece of the earth, and we shall be proportionately grateful." The freshmen in retaliation hoisted to the top of the highest derrick a white flag with '92 in blue...
...Yale were willing to meet the crews of the smaller colleges seem to have been following a logical development. The ambition to win has resulted in a greater mastery of watermanship, and the colleges which have had less material to draw from, or which have allowed their interests to flag, have been left behind, so that Harvard and Yale have been justified in their exclusiveness. Of these two colleges, neither can claim superiority on the water, and neither can be ashamed of its past record. Both stand on the same level with an equal number of victories. The ambition...
...course will be slightly altered this year. The flag at the start has been shifted eastward fifteen feet. This will give the west crew deeper water than it has formerly had. For two miles the course is unchanged, but after the two-mile flag the course bends west, then strikes straight for the finish. The finish flag will be nearer the Groton shore than usual to avoid the docks used in building the new railroad bridge which will cross the river here...