Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half a mile, and then make thorough trials of the merits and safety of the road before the track can be continued to Harvard Square, so we shall have to wait a year or two without doubt before the much desired means of rapid transit can be ours. The point at which the trial half mile begins is in East Cambridge, near the Bay State Glass Works, in the vicinity of Fourth Street, and it continues from there on the border line between Somerville and Cambridge to the great pork packing establishment of John P. Squire's. The above facts...
...snapped his oar, and thus put his crew out of the race. In the first fifty yards Colony and Mumford began to draw ahead, and when the crews were abreast of the boat-house it could be seen that the finish would result in a lapping race. At this point Mumford was leading Colony by half a length, with Harris a good third, and Porter last, but lapping Harris. All the crews spurted desperately over the last hundred yards of the course, but the order was not changed, and Mumford sent his barge over the line a quarter length ahead...
...strictly economical principles, to which purpose he steadily adhered. I have felt and still feel that to manage the Boat Club money extravagantly or carelessly is not only wasteful, but demoralizing to the crew and everyone connected with the crew. More than this, I consider it bad in point of policy and worse in point of honesty. I desire to thank, through your columns, Mr. Flagg, '87; Mr. Wheelwright, '87; Mr. Bowles, '87, Mr. Dexter, '87; and Mr. Scoffield, '87 for their kind assistance in collecting subscriptions...
Cleghorn point Williams...
Aird cover-point Nichols...