Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time the cover will have a Harvard scene as the background on the cover. Although the book will be approximately the same size as that of a year ago, new features have been included. Outstanding is an article on education at Harvard during the past four years. Greater length will be given to a stories on sports and the Houses...
...Deacons took an early lead of two lengths and held it with a minimum of effort. Their well balanced crew, repeating its triumph of Wednesday afternoon when it defeated its inter-House rivals, completely outclassed he Elis and increased its lead in the closing yards by another full length...
...water. The failure of the Crimson to respond in the storm with a lower stroke was partially responsible for the almost immediate falling back of the Harvard boat to third place. Penn was already far in the wake. The crews reached the finish with the Big Red a length in the lead and Harvard and Syracuse second in a dead heat. The Quaker and the Cornell shells immediately started to sink while the foundering oarsmen made for the launches. By constant bailing, the Syracuse and Crimson eights managed to keep the water from lapping at the gunwales inboard until they...
Under far more favorable conditions earlier in the afternoon, the Jayvees took the Syracuse boat for the second time this year by an expected length and left the Big Red Junior Varsity and Penn straggled along in that order. From the flying start to the finish the Jayvees rowed their own race and maintained a satisfactory lead over the Orangemen...
...Syracuse, while the Cornell boat doesn't present too much opposition. With the exception of a slump last Saturday, the Jayvees have consistently bettered their times, and recently have been pressing the Varsity in trials. There is every reason to believe that the second eight will stretch out a length lead at least over the Orange Jayvees, with the Big Red a close third...