Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...always expressed for the Nine, even after the unlucky Cambridge game, has proved itself not misplaced. Three games won from Yale in one week is a record the Nine and the College can well be proud of, especially since the scores were so largely in our favor. Knowing that Harvard had the better nine, and feeling confident of victory even after two defeats, we are not inclined, after the manner of the Yale News, "to allow our brains to be turned wild or to be driven crazy with rapture"; victory has perched herself too frequently, under Captain Thayer's able...
...HEMENWAY has made the needed corrections in the plans, the ground has been broken, and the workmen are now laying the foundations of the Harvard Gymnasium. By the kind permission of the gentleman who has made this gift to the College, we are enabled to print with this issue the ground-plans and a sectional view of the elevation, and though they may not furnish an idea of the building as it will look when finished, they may afford some conception of its dimensions and its accommodations...
...HARVARD has crossed the line (time, 20 min. 44 3/5 sec.), Yale is expected every minute," was the telegram despatched from the finish to the start at the end of the fourth race of eight-oared University crews in America...
None but the Harvard scratch-races were ever known to take place on time. It is hardly surprising then that the crews in this regatta were not started until an hour after the appointed time. At five minutes past twelve the word was given, but the Yale men seemed to have perceived by intuition that it was coming, and got under way a second or two before Harvard. But our men were off the next instant, and made the smooth paper shell literally jump through the water. At the end of the sixth stroke they were fairly ahead of Yale...
...first quarter-mile Harvard was rowing 36 to the minute, and Yale was three lengths astern, pulling 33. Yale kept a slow stroke during the entire race, and it was evident to any one who watched their rowing that they had not broken themselves of a bad habit of pausing, or "hanging" at the beginning of the stroke. For the next half-mile Harvard kept the same stroke; but at the end of the third quarter, when the crimson was four lengths ahead of the blue, they slackened to 34 strokes per minute, while Yale was rowing...