Word: raced
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...contribute their support to screwing up athletic competition to the highest semiprofessional pitch. They lend their hallowing patronage to fraternity life and other college institutions which tend to emphasize social distinction. And the college administration, in contrast to the European scheme, has turned the college into a sort of race with a prize at the goal. The degree has become a sort of honorific badge for all classes of society, and the colleges have been forced to give it this quasi athletic setting and fix the elaborate rules of the game by which it may be won-rules which shall...
...candidates were grouped according to dormitories, as it is intended to have dormitory work for about two weeks, before the regular Freshman crews are chosen. This rowing will lead up to a final race for the Slocum Trophy and individual cups and medals, which are given each year to the members of winning dormitory crews...
There is a nucleus of good runnres this fall upon which to build B. T. Twitchell '16 and K. E. Fuller '16 can in the Yale and Intercollegiate races last year, the latter also at Cornell, W. Edgar '16 and A. R. Bancroft '17 were also Harvard representatives in the Cornell race, and Bancroft ran a good race at New Haven. The other Senior who has been out since Monday is G. H. Hughes...
...annual Yale regatta on the Thames at New London on June 24 and 25, the University won two of the five races, the Freshman four and the graduates' contest. Yale easily won the principal event of the regatta, when the University regulars were beaten by seven lengths. The Yale boat started with a leap before Harvard's oars had touched the water, an initial spurt which put Yale almost immediately half a length ahead. Harvard rowed a faster stroke almost throughout the race, but fell behind constantly as the Blue showed no signs of weakening or overstraining. The University also...
...second crew this year is not up to the standard of last year's Henley eight. The seconds have had but one race, fin- ishing after the Pennsylvania seconds in the race for junior collegiate eights at the American Henley, Philadelphia, on the same day that the University beat Cornell. The Princeton seconds came in third at Philadelphia. Since that time the University boat has improved, but the recent loss of E. W. Soucy '16 who was captaining the crew has been seriously felt. The make-up of the boat has been quite uncertain during a great part...