Word: mile
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University fall rowing season was officially closed yesterday with an impromtu race between Crews A and B over the mile course in the Charles River Basin. The crews were nearly perfectly matched and rowed bow and bow all the distance. But at the finish Crew A forged slightly ahead and was declared winner by one-quarter of a length. The time...
...double sculls race N. P. Darling '17, and G. F. Talbot '16 won easily, finishing about five lengths ahead of B. Carpenter '16 and W. L. Robinson '16, who came in second. The boats rowed over the mile course from the Cottage Farm Bridge to the Harvard Bridge...
This afternoon the double scull race will be rowed over the mile course from the Cottage Farm Bridge to the Harvard Bridge at 4 o'clock. The entries are as follows: C. C. Lund '16, and J. C. White '17; N. P. Darling '17 and G. F. Talbot '16; B. Carpenter '16 and W. L. Robinson '16; W. A. Flagg '19 and R. H. Kissell...
...tradition of the Union Army in the Civil War, a confident feeling has grown up among the people of this country that a large army could be raised in a short space of time. General McClellan's army of the Potomac in 1862 in trying to advance averaged one mile per day, while one day the whole army retreated five miles to meet its provision train. In 1864 Grant had a body of seasoned men who accomplished something by one kind of fighting...
...season will last four weeks and many of the world's great singers will appear besides the added attraction of Mile. Pavlowa and her unparalleled Ballet Russe. The Boston Grand Opera Company has arranged for the presentation of the most modern and elaborate scenic effects and the orchestra is to be one of the finest that has ever appeared with the company...