Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second Freshman crew defeated Middlesex School by a length and a half over the three-quarter of a mile course above the Stillman Infirmary yesterday afternoon. Considering that they far outweighed their opponents, the work of the Freshman eight was poor. Half way through the race number 6 in the Middlesex boat jumped his slide, after which the winners drew rapidly ahead. No time was taken...
Starting at Cottage Farm Bridge, rowing 40 strokes to the minute, the University crew quickly made up half of its handicap of two lengths. The first eight then dropped its stroke to 35 and passed the second at the three-eighths of a mile point. At Harvard Bridge a quarter length of open water had been gained. At this point the second crew raised the stroke, reaching 42 before dropping out, but after a slight gain fell back, and finished two lengths behind. The University eight went on to the Union Boat Club, sending the stroke...
Sixteen competitors started at Harvard Bridge with Withington leading. Nelson followed him closely and gained slowly. At the three-quarter mile mark he had drawn up abreast but caught a crab which checked him so badly that he crossed the line two lengths behind Withington. At the finish Nelson was less than a length ahead of C. W. Peabody '12. R. S. Parker '12, the winner of the race last year, finished a length behind Peabody...
...clock, is practically impossible. On the warmer days 4 o'clock sees at least thirty men waiting for a chance to play. The same situation maintains from October 1 until the frost comes. Moreover, on afternoons when there is a strong breeze from the prevailing quarter, clouds of sand, worn from the top-dressing, drive down the whole length of the courts; games are stopped and much of the pleasure and health of the sport is neutralized...
...half-mile the second crew began to gain on the first, and at Harvard Bridge had gained a lead of half a length, which was opened to a length in the next few hundred yards. At this point the Juniors had passed the Seniors. A quarter of a mile below the bridge the Freshmen began to hit their pace and gained slowly on the second, passing them just before the finish line...