Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oxford Review is the only college undergraduates paper published in England. In the United Stater there are over...
...Oxford-Cambridge chess match was won by the former, 7 games to 3. The annual contest was instituted in 1873, and Cambridge is now four matches and ten games ahead...
...Yale News has arranged to publish letters from Oxford at regular intervals...
...their rigging are the short stretchers, and slides as long as a man naturally can use and varying for each man. In England every stretcher is fixed at an angle of 45 degrees and the exact number of inches the crew can slide fixed by the coach. In the Oxford and Cambridge crews this is from 15 to 151/2 inches, and is exactly the same for a long man as for a short man. The seat is then stopped 1,1/2 inches from the pin toward the bow. The only variable measurement in the whole boat is the distance from...
...article referred to the English system of rigging is also incorrectly described. The play of the slide is less in England than in America. There is also a great difference in the build of the oars. Oxford uses oars with 3 feet 9 inches "in board length," Cambridge with 3 feet 10 inches "in board length." The extra length "in board" must give gieater power of leverage and a stronger finish. It certainly prevents any difficulty in keeping the button against the pin at both ends of the stroke an important principle in watermanship. Rowing at Cambridge has for sixteen...