Word: lead
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...started promptly a few minutes after 6 o'clock. By her method of taking shorter strokes in starting Yale gained a slight advantage at the crack of the starting gun, showing 19 strokes in the first half minute to Harvard's 18. But this slight lead was soon cut down and before a quarter of a mile had been rowed Harvard took the lead and settled down to a steady pace of 33, a stroke which was maintained for two miles. At the half-mile the lead was one-third of a length, and after the first mile had been...
During the year twenty-eight different clubs have used the various rooms of the Union. The small Sophomore class dinners, the class smokers, and the Round Table dinners have likewise been held there as in past years; and the Sophomore class, following the lead of the class of 1910, held a pop night in the Living Room in place of the annual class dinner. This year the Juniors instituted a new scheme of having, instead of one of the class smokers, a Strawberry Night, which proved highly successful. The Junior Union Dance, the Faculty Reception and the reception to President...
...Freshman and Middlesex School four-oared crews rowed two races over a three-quarter mile course on the Charles River above the Stillman Infirmary yesterday afternoon. In the first race the Middlesex crew won from the Freshmen by one and a half lengths. The Middle sex crew got a lead at the start and held this advantage throughout; they rowed in almost perfect form and used fully as much power as the Freshmen though a considerably lighter crew. In the second race the Freshman second won by a length from the Middlesex second four, who were one half length ahead...
Brown won the game in the first inning, when a base on balls and a home run gave a lead of two runs. For six innings thereafter the University team played a lifeless and stupid game and refused to score when runs seemed inevitable. Simons opened the seventh, however, with a home run and the possibility of winning instilled a little interest in the game. Brown was held without score in the last three innings, although three men got to first in the ninth. With two out in the last of the ninth the University team made its first real...
...revive a custom discontinued several years ago, members of the Glee Club will lead singing in the Yard on pleasant evenings between now and Class Day. The occasions will be entirely informal and no fixed dates or programs will be arranged. All members of the University and especially the Seniors are invited to join in the singing, which will consist of popular and college songs...