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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University cross-country team defeated the Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday afternoon by the score of 27 to 53. M. S. Crosby '08 finished first, covering the four and one-half-mile course in 24m., 44 4-5s., which is 25 4-5s. more than the record for the course, made last year by Howland of Technology. In scoring, the first six men of each team were counted, each place counting according to its numerical value, the team with the smallest score winning. The University team won the first three, and the sixth, seventh and eighth places...
...start, after being delayed for some time by the unreadiness of the various crews, was made at about 4.15 o'clock. The boats got off fairly well together, the three boats which finished first being almost nose-and-nose, and Mount Auburn Street about half a length in the rear. Randolph pulled the extraordinary number of 39 strokes in the first minute, while Claverly and Matthews rowed about 36 and Mount Auburn Street 35. Rowing such a fast stroke, Randolph rapidly forged ahead and led by half a length at the bridge. Claverly and Matthews, rowing a slower stroke, were...
...decided checking of the shell between strokes. Had Randolph not attempted to row so many strokes to the minute in the early part of the race, it seems likely that they would have had better control over their slides, and been fresher for the struggle over the last half-mile of the course...
...University cross-country team will race the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this afternoon at about 4 o'clock. The race will be held over the Technology course, from the Highland Club in West Roxbury to the Technology grounds in Brookline Village, a distance of four and one-half miles. Last year Technology won by the score of 18 to 39, Howland of Technology covering the course in the record time...
...tablets were put in place on the walls of the Chapel during the past summer. The bronze tablet to Henry Ware, presented by his descendants, has been placed in the north wall at the left of the pulpit. It bears a bas-relief of Henry Ware on the upper half and the dates "1794-1843." Below is the inscription: "Henry Ware Junior. Parkman Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and the Pastoral Care...