Word: racing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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During the past week the partisans of the four major teams have been silent. Their sports have not been endangered by the recent proposal of the Athletic Committee, except in the case of the track team, which would lose its annual relay race with Yale. Here is one of the four major teams holding hard practice from the end of the Christmas vacation until the end of the season in May, with but a few weeks of rest in March. The baseball team also begins work early in the year, although its games do not commence until after the first...
...work for the University crew this week has consisted mainly of short stretches at a higher stroke in preparation for the Annapolis race. Wednesday was devoted to practicing racing starts; and on Thursday the first and second crews had a two-mile race. The water was so rough, however, that satisfactory work was almost impossible. A stroke of 30 was maintained for most of the distance, but the men were still inclined to rush the slides and cut the finish; and when the stroke was raised there was a pronounced tendency to kick the slides away and shorten the stroke...
...undergraduate's interests here at Harvard may be classed under three heads,--athletic, social,--both harmless and vicious,--and academic. The Faculty, realizing that, in the race to win the interest of the average undergraduate, it is far behind the promoters of athletic and social enterprises, proposes to exclude, in a measure, the other competitors. Before it does so it would be well for it to examine the workings of all the departments to see if the utmost possible is done to attract the interest of undergraduates. We wonder if the average instructor is as heartily interested in the welfare...
Owing to a proof error in Saturday's issue of the CRIMSON a misstatement was made in the announcement of the Annapolis crew race. The University crew will leave Cambridge on Thursday. April 16, arriving at Annapolis the next day at noon. On the following Wednesday, probably at 3 o'clock, the race will be rowed...
...lead, but was unable to keep up his pace to the finish. DeSelding used good judgment and stayed in the rear until passing the bend, when he spurted and overtook all the others. H. Watson '10 was not in good condition and dropped out early in the race...