Word: half
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...course was not accurately measured, no time was taken. The crews got away evenly at the start, but about two hundred yards down the course number five in the Freshman boat caught a crab. This gave the Sophomores a slight advantage, but they did not hold it long. A half-mile from the start the Freshmen began to draw away, and just before Harvard Bridge they led by about a length. At this point the Sophomores were forced out of their course by a mass of floating debris, and by the time they were straightened out on the other side...
...smoothly as it has in practice. They were certain of the distance, and at the finish were well rowed out. The Sophomores were not in as good form as they were early in the week. They were not as well together as usual, and after the first half-mile they clipped the stroke badly. The two crews may be well compared by the strokes they rowed. The Freshmen maintained a rate of 34 all over the course, while the Sophomores were rowing...
...little avail. The same spirit is evident in the small number of Seniors who join in at such an informal gathering as was held in the Union last evening in the slow response that answers the repeated calls of the class Secretary and Class Committee; in the half-hearted interest that is taken in nearly every class enterprise...
...which has caused considerable comment is the method of counting the weeks as beginning on Wednesday. This is due to the fact that the tables open on this day in the fall, but there seems to be no particular reason for continuing the system during the year. By charging half price for the first half-week, the Hall could start regularly on the Monday following the opening of College, and save a great deal of trouble and expense for the many men who naturally prefer to enter or leave the Hall on Monday morning in order to make arrangements with...
...difficult to realize the rapid concentration in cities which has taken place since the Civil War. This is partly due to the great immigration--sixteen and one-half millions in the same period. With overcrowding, and the influx of a body of people unused to free government, has come a depreciation of the intelligence of the suffrage, still further lowered by the creation of a class of industrial operatives whose task of monoto- nously repeating one small operation requires but small intellect...