Word: kept
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work of the crew has not been especially encouraging. Scholarship conditions kept three strong starboard oars from the Annapolis race, so that Yale only won by half a length. The crew, which was composed of men who had never rowed in an intercollegiate race before, was as follows: stroke, Blagden; 7, Miller; 6, Fish; 5, Bloomer; 4, H. N. Scott; 3, Ferguson; 2, Whitney; bow, Phipps...
...Seniors. The Newell Juniors had lost three men within the past week and did not enter. At the start, the Sophomores, on the outside course, rowed in better form than their opponents and began immediately to gain. Both crews settled at once into a long, steady stroke, which they kept throughout the race, the Sophomores rowing about 23 strokes to the minute and the Seniors about 26. During the entire race both crews held their form well. The time of the Sophomore crew was 13 minutes and 41 seconds, the Seniors coming in about 30 seconds later, and seven lengths...
...with intercollegiate debating since it began, in 1892, being one of the University speakers at the first Harvard-Yale debate, which was simply between members of debating clubs, with no decision. In 1893, however, he was on the first University team to defeat Yale. Since leaving College he has kept up his interest in debating, and served as coach for the terms which defeated Yale in 1899 and in 1900. Mr. Stone is a member of the Boston law firm of Stone, Dallinger and Bancroft and associate judge of the third district, Northern Middlesex...
...being over-hauled and will be launched in a few days. Beginning last Monday, the University crew squad has been rowing in barges. Three provisional eights have been maintained with little change during the week, the remainder of the squad rowing in pair-oars. The stroke has been kept very slow, seldom above 20 to the minute, and some improvement in the direction of a gradual and steady recover is already evident...
...University boathouse were put out yesterday, and two eights from the University squad went out in barges on the river, for the first time this season. The crews rowed several stretches up and down in front of the boathouse, while Mr. Colson coached, from the float. The stroke was kept very slow, neither of the crews rowing more than twenty strokes to the minute. The rest of the squad rowed in pair oars...