Word: raced
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...This war, I hope, is going to end the power of force in the world, but it is not going to end time nor blot out the human race. The future is going to demand leadership as the past has demanded it. Young men who have the opportunity to obtain liberal education should not, through more patriotic feelings and because they are fearful that somebody will allude to them as slackers, drop this training and rush indiscriminately into the army...
...April 27 the University oarsmen met the Princeton eight on Lake Carnegie, both crews starting the race as unknown quantities, and their relative speed and power but a matter of conjecture. On the same day the University Freshmen clashed with the Tiger yearlings. In both contests the Haines system proved victorious. Though the University's time, 9 minutes and 57 seconds, for the Henley course was slow, the race was hard fought and afforded a really creditable exhibition of oarsmanship, 1921 secured an easy win in 10 minutes and 58 seconds...
...month later the latter crew wound up its season with a victory over the Yale 1921 eight on the Charles. The losers were inferior in both experience and power. This race was staged as the feature of the annual Invitation Regatta held by the University as part of the program; also the letter's second crew was matched against the Elis B aggregation. Yale, with an advantage of 15 pounds per man, came out the winner, but only by half a length...
...University's race with Yale on Saturday, the season was brought to an end. Yale though boasting several veterans in her first boat did not display the power or endurance exhibited by the University, and was outdistanced in the two-mile grind by over two lengths...
...mile and a quarter flag, however, the Crimson boat gradually crept up, and with the stroke considerably increased, Captain Emmet drove his crew ahead. Yale attempted to keep the pace but failed, and the University soon had clear water. From this point on the outcome of the race was never in doubt. Yale exerted every effort, but at the finish there was a length of clear water betwen the two shells...