Word: fours
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Here are facts. The Harvard swimming team has no tank to practise in, and no material but those men who will sacrifice a whole season of football or baseball for 2 or 3 swimming events, where time by the most approved stop-watches never exceeds four minutes, yet is by common consent of the legislators pronounced an extravagant mis-appropriation of time, energy, and gray matter. Lest such wholesale absorption of athletics be increased they have made the two-season rule...
...School's collection of portraits of famous lawyers and judges has recently been increased by about one hundred pictures, which have been purchased at an auction in Philadelphia of the late Chief Justice Mitchell's collection. Most of them are portraits of English jurists of the last four centuries, including those of Wolsey and other Lord Chancellors. This new addition brings the total number of pictures in the collection up to about five hundred and makes it probably the best of its kind in the world. Most of it is in the old Law School Building, but part...
...University team missed the services of former Captain C. A. Bliss '08, who took part in the earlier meets, but who has left College. H. A. Erhard '09, a new member of the team, did the most creditable work for Harvard, as he won three of the four matches won by his team. G. L. Cutting '09, captain of the team, secured Harvard's other point. L. Barroll '09 replaced B. M. Nussbaum '08 early in the meet, but met with no better success. The Yale team was distinctly superior. Staley of Yale was the best individual performer and both...
...four University crews all left the boathouse yesterday about four o'clock and headed up-stream. In the absence of Lunt, Coach Wray went in at number four, so that the order of the other crews might not be broken. Moral at stroke, having replaced Sargent on Monday, pulls an excellent oar, getting a longer reach and harder drive at the finish. Waid who was taken from the second crew and put in at five in the first, rows in good form, and gets a good deal of power into each stroke...
...order of the four crews is as follows...