Word: floating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard wins in the game with Brown this afternoon the championship pennant will float on Holmes Field next year. We have good reason to feel confident as to the result, but let there be no relaxation on the nine's part. "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," says the old proverb, and Harvard at different times has had the truth of the maxim sorely impressed upon her. The championship undoubtedly hangs upon this game, for if defeated by the weakest club in the inter-collegiate league, how can we expect to overcome our strongest opponents...
...different crews of our sister college, Wellesley, enjoyed their annual "float" Saturday evening...
...point a little beyond the Crescent Boat Club's float, the seniors were nearly a length to the good, the sophomores next, the freshmen some three lengths to the rear, and the juniors behind still further. The stroke at this time was '85, 42; '87, 42; '88, 40; '86, 42. This order was not greatly altered at the sluice-way. When the leading crews reached Exeter Street, the sophomores had drawn up on the seniors, and from this point on, they gradually increased their lead. From Exeter Street to the finish, the race between '85 and '87 was a magnificent...
...Cambridge during the week, and every afternoon took practise spins on the Charles. The 'Varsity were here until Saturday, when they took a few days vacation; they will begin rowing again to-morrow. The men experienced considerable difficulty and discomfort in getting into their boats, as the large float was not put in position until Monday, and they were obliged to crowd into the small boat-house and embark from the small float. On account of the high winds which are wont to prevail during this time of year, the water has been rather rough. Yesterday, however, the Charles...
There is an '88 club table in Memorial, which devours infants' food in enormous quantities. Bread and molasses is the staple article of diet, while milk enough is drunk the float the U. S. Navy...