Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spirited half-mile race in the Basin Saturday the Freshman four-oared crew won from the Pomfret and Middlesex fours. The race was closely contested all the way and the 1918 crew was but two feet ahead of the Pomfret boat at the finish. Middlesex finished a quarter of a length behind Pomfret...
...fifteen minutes before the hour up to 10.45, chapel to be held in the fifteen minutes between that hour and 11 o'clock. The time seems ideal, coming as it does in the middle of the morning session when more men would undoubtedly believe they could sacrifice the quarter of an hour than in the hurrying minutes before 9 o'clock...
...University Sophomore crew won the race against Yale on Saturday afternoon, for the first time in the three years that the races have been held. Yale won the single sculls event. For the first quarter of a mile only was there any doubt which 1917 boat would win out. The start was at Cottage Farm bridge. After the first quarter mile the Sophomores slowed down to a low, powerful stroke. The lead was steadily increased. Just before the finish Henderson urged his men on to a final spurt with which they swept across the line a good three lengths...
Phillips and Bawden were the high point winners for Exeter, the former winning both dashes, and Bawden both the quarter and the half-mile. E. J. Pratt '18, L. B. Means '18, and Porter, of Exeter, took bad falls in the hurdles...
...Saturday afternoon the second 1918 crew won from Exeter Academy their first outside race. For the first three quarters of the mile the schoolboys maintained the lead by quarter of a length. But when Stroke Simonds drove his men on to a hard finish they passed their rivals, finishing strongly a quarter of a length ahead...