Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harvard Bicycle Club met on Tuesday evening for the election of officers for the ensuing year. The following gentlemen were chosen: President, Mr. R. C. Sturgis, '81; Captain, Mr. M. Tilden, '81; Sub-Captain, Mr. R. S. Codman, '83; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. J. H. Storer, '82; Directors, Messrs. R. C. Allen, '80, A. Harvey, '81, J. H. Sturgis, '81, J. E. Bullard, '82, C. P. Curtis...
...third successive year Yale has had the championship wrested from her unexpectedly. In this game her men played well until the critical moment; while Harvard's nine never played steadier than during the long up-hill fight of the first six innings. It is a brilliant ending for those who will play no more on Harvard's side, and may well serve as a model for those who are to take their places the coming year...
...does not need description. The only dramatic situation was at the start, which was made at dusk after a delay of nearly three hours. Then Yale caught the water at the word "two," and this advantage gave her the lead for a second and a half. After that time Harvard pulled steadily away from Yale, and increased the lead during each mile. She won by a difference of one minute and forty-three seconds, making the four miles in 22.15, - a loss upon last year's time, which was 20.44. The time this year is by no means remarkable, considering...
...first place this victory will have a decided effect upon American college rowing. It has proved beyond further question the superiority of the Harvard stroke, and the worthlessness of the system of rowing in which Yale has persisted. The effect will be to make final the adoption of the English method of rowing in this country...
...second place the victory has a peculiar interest for Harvard because it is followed by the retirement of men who have long been associated in the Crew. That era in our boating annals which was marked by the class of Seventy-nine is ended. The man whose energy did much to bring the crimson three times to the front has severed his connection with the University. Our prospects are good while Captain Trimble remains in college; but probably it will be long before Harvard will again have three such crews in succession as those of the past three years. Harvard...