Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method allotted two scholarships (once every three years) to every state regardless of population or educational facilities. Since not all states regularly produce Oxford-worthy candidates, this plan occasionally resulted in the selection of imperfect U. S. specimens...
...Cross will be staged in the Stadium, and on May 11, the University handicap meet will be held. With the Dartmouth meet scheduled for May 17, the Yale contest comes only a week later. The Intercollegiate at Philadelphia on May 30 and June 1 and the Harvard-Yale-Cambridge-Oxford meet in the Stadium on July 13 complete the season's schedule...
...hundred years ago an Oxford student wrote to a friend at Cambridge suggesting a boat race between the two universities. Came the answer: "Your impudence is unparalleled. The sufficiently candid manner in which you talk of 'lasting us out' (!!!) amuses me so much that I am ready to die of laughing. . . ." So the first Oxford-Cambridge race was arranged...
Last week perhaps a million persons lined the Thames from Putney to Mortlake. It was the centenary of the famous struggle between the light blue and the dark. Forty times had impudent Oxford won. Thirty-nine times victory had gone to Cambridge. Once, in 1877, the judges could name no winner, for the crews finished together to the stroke−a dead heat...
...broke through a light fog as the rival strokes dipped their blades. There was a hush−then cheers. For a moment the lighter Oxford crew drew ahead, with nervous high strokes. Another hush. Then the light blue, settling into regularity, caught up and moved on. At Craven Steps, marking the mile, Cambridge led by three-quarters of a boat-length, stroking 30 to the minute against Oxford's 32. At Chiswick Church, which marks two miles, Stroke Brocklebank had geared his men to 29 strokes to the minute and they had increased their lead to two lengths...