Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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October 26.--Col. H. L. Scott, U. S. A., Commandant of West Point, on "The Military Academy...
...held in the morning, before the university eight-oared race. The fours started at the finish line opposite Red Top and rowed over the last two miles of the course to the Navy Yard. The eights rowed two miles from the Navy Yard to the rail-road bridge. In point of closeness the four-oared race was the best of the day. Both crews started at 36 to the minute, with Yale having a slight advantage, which was increased to almost a length by the time the half-mile flag was reached. On nearing the mile mark, where rough water...
From another point of view the results of this year's races were especially gratifying. Coach Wray has just finished his fifth year at Harvard and the record of his crews in this period is remarkable. During these years Harvard has won three out of five races for university eights and four out of five for freshman eights...
...lead and settled down to a steady pace of 33, a stroke which was maintained for two miles. At the half-mile the lead was one-third of a length, and after the first mile had been passed Harvard was about two-thirds of a length ahead. From this point up to the two and one-half mile flag the race was a gruelling one and very exciting, Harvard's stroke never varying from 33, while Yale's was being continually broken by vain spurts. Just before reaching the half-way mark before the Navy Yard, Yale made a supreme...
From the spectator's point of view, though the cheering at the game was admirably enthusiastic and truly spontaneous, its organization was far from perfect. Further, the unsportlike jeers and cat-calls on the occasion of our opponent's misplays were beneath contempt; when we talk about the attempts of men of other colleges to rattle pitchers, we should remember that, while we do not professedly organize demonstrations for the purpose, we tolerate many individual offenders...