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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Sophomore class crew yesterday afternoon defeated the Stone's School crew by half a length of open water in a closely contested race over a mile and a half course, commencing at the Union Boat Club. T. P. Lindsay '04, captain of the 1904 Freshman crew, acted as referee...
Stone's School won the toss and chose the outside course, along the Cambridge bank, on account of the more favorable tide. Stone's got a lead of half a length at the start, which it maintained for the first half-mile. Here the Sophomores increased their stroke from 30 to 32 and at Harvard bridge caught up with their opponents. By means of another spurt they drew away from Stone's finishing about a length and a half in the lead. The Sophomores victory was due to their superior weight, a more powerful drive and better form. Notwithstanding...
Late Saturday afternoon the University crews took a trial row over the mile and seven-eighths course. They started together at the Union Boat Club and rowed upstream with the tide. The University crew pulled slowly away from the second, and at Harvard Bridge was a length ahead. From here it gained rapidly on its opponents, finishing at the Longwood Bridge five lengths in the lead. the crews covered the course in fairly good time. Owing to Montgomery's temporary absence, Chase was coxswain in the University crew, and Arnold in the second boat...
...support the affirmative side of the question, the men speaking in the following order in both their main and rebuttal speeches: A. C. Blagden '06. M. Kabatchnick '06, A. M. Newald '06. A. W. Blackwood '05 is the alternate. Each man's main speech will be twelve minutes in length, and his rebuttal speech five minutes...
...exciting race upstream over the mile and seven eighths course late Saturday afternoon, the second University eight defeated the Senior class crew by about three-quarters of a length of open mater in 9 minutes and 55 seconds, which was very good time considering the weather conditions. The Seniors showed the better from, but were possibly affected to some extent by the fact that it was their first hard row, and they were not to fresh as the second University crew, which had been towed by the launch the three and a half miles to the starting point. A gain...