Word: pull
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harvard has good reason to believe that her crew of 1878 would make a good race with any college eight that can be got together and trained before next summer. It is the desire of our crew to row against Cornell and any other colleges that are willing to pull in eight-oars, and to beat them, if possible, before going to England. In fact, Captain Bancroft is in favor of making our race with Oxford conditional on our beating the college eights in America. If Harvard should be so fortunate as to win the races she enters in this...
...With two teams they shall pull best two in three...
With three teams 1 and 2 shall pull, then...
With four teams 1 and 2 shall pull, then 3 and 4, and the winners pull the final...
...table until an organization of a crew could be effected. In a word, matters looked very "blue." Since then a change has taken place in the state of affairs. Mr. Bancroft and Mr. Crocker have consented to take their old seats in the boat, and Mr. Legate may possibly pull as number three. Last Monday afternoon a large and enthusiastic crowd of graduates and undergraduates had the satisfaction of seeing the New London crew, with only one change in its complement, pull past the float with the same magnificent stroke that has won them their well-merited reputation...