Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snapped at the button over half a mile from the finish. The Ithacans continued pounding away with an heroic beat and clung closely tot he heavy Harvard crew whose shell was noticeably lower in the waves than either, Tech or Cornell. In the final sprint Cornell could not keep up but the prow of the Tech boat riding high and clear, shot forward past amidships of the sinking Crimson shell and nearly snatched the victory from the Harvard eight...
...open to unpleasant interpretation. The step is explained on the ground that Harvard needs freedom for experimentation and innovation. Others may perhaps recall that the number of league debates is limited, and that outside of these contests Harvard would still have opportunity for plenty of experimentation. Furthermore, to keep the league debates as a conservative balance against radical innovations would be only a policy of wisdom...
...probable abolishment of admission charges for undergraduates and alumni years ago, when the Harvard Stadium was first built, the students were promised free seats at all the games as soon as the debts were paid off. If this endowment should ever become a reality, Harvard would be able to keep her promise at last...
...defeat of the season by a 3 to 1 verdict, at the hands of the Dartmouth cubs, Saturday at Hanover. This game, which was the first to be played away from home by the first-year nine, broke the record of four straight wins, and enabled the Indians to keep their slate clean...
...Shields has a hard task ahead of him. He is far from the sea, but the waves dash overhead, and they carry the voices of Columbia professors and Helen Kane. A wave of the hand may stop the sea, but it will take a turn of the dial to keep sin outside Des Moines...