Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...race was started up stream on account of the wind; and through a misunderstanding the gun was fired before the University crew was set for the start. The Navy crew accordingly got away first, and rowing nearly 40 to the minute, soon had a lead of over half a length, when the stroke was slowed down to 37. Harvard, rowing between 33 and 34 to the minute, spurted time after time to regain the lost distance; but by raising the stroke whenever the lead was threatened, Annapolis maintained her advantage until close to the finish. At the mile post...
...University shooting team was defeated by the Boston Athletic Association Gun club on Saturday by the score of 196 to 189. E. Wigglesworth '08 was high man, getting 43 birds out of a possible 50. The summary follows: UNIVERSITY TEAM First Second Round Round Total Wigglesworth, 24 19 43 Brower, 20 15 35 Brooks, 19 19 38 Rauthaway, 16 21 37 Higginson, 19 17 36 189 B. A. A. GUN CLUB First Second Round Round Total Owens, 16 16 32 Adams, 21 20 41 Ellis, 22 19 41 Fay, 21 20 41 Reed...
...seventeen minutes past three, Captian Richardson fired the starting gun from the bow of the John Harvard. Each crew caught the water at the same time; the second boat held the Boston side of the river, the fourth the Cambridge side, with the third between. J. Cutler, stroking the third, at once brought his crew into the lead by a few yards, and the fourth dropped back behind the second by about the same distance; each crew was rowing 30 strokes to the minute. In this same relative position the first two crews swept under the Harvard Bridge...
This machine consists of a breach loading, compressed air gun, set about five and one half feet from the ground. The barrel is five feet in length and the speed, direction and curves of the pitched balls are automatically controlled...
...excusable to keep up the tradition that there is some special merit in a bachelor's degree. But between ourselves in the Intercollegiate Civic League, what, pray, is there about our college training, our four years of fraternity life, athletics, and electives to enable us to guess within gun shot of the amount necessary to run a board of health: whether asphalt pavement is an inch or a foot thick; whether a tenement house department is spending too little or too much money; whether a city budget should be $143,000,000 or $100,000,000; or just where economy...