Word: half
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lacrosse team ended its season Monday, in New York, on Berkeley Oval, where it defeated the Columbia team, 8-5. Rain fell throughout the game, making the field very slippery. Columbia started off with two goals, but soon Harvard pulled together, making five goals straight. The first half ended with Harvard 5 and Columbia 3. The last half was very closely contested, although Columbia weakened toward the end The work of the team this year has been better than its record would show. The team has played five match games. It has lost 3, tied...
...yards dash, the half and the mile runs and the bicycle race the pole was drawn for and not the positions of each entry. These will be decided at the time of the race, the only restriction being that two men from the same university shall not be next to each other...
...quarter is Fisher, who is one of the fastest quarter milers Yale ever had. She has taken him out of the sprints and apparently intends to win this event for once. To do so, however, Fisher will have to beat Bremer and Fish '99. In the half mile Draper 1900 and Bush 1901 are pretty evently matched against Ordway, Yale's best man. Bush is a new man who lacks experience, otherwise he might be looked upon as a winner. In the mile run two Freshmen, Mills and Clark, are of exceptional ability and with Grant are certainly better than...
...They rowed a slower stroke than the 'Varsity and seemed to get a better nip and leg-shove, sending their boat along in excellent style. Towards the end the 'Varsity made a spurt, but were unable to gain and were beaten by about one length and a half...
...accommodate the new arrivals has decreased, the number of immigrants has vastly increased since 1820. The cheapening of transportation has made it possible for almost any one to come to this country. At the same time the character of this immigration has deteriorated. At the present time over one-half of the immigrants come from those races of southeastern Europe, which assimilate least readily with the Anglo-Saxon race. It by no means follows because a large per cent. of the immigration of the past has been assimilated with the native population that all of the immigration of today...