Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will be rowed downstream over a two-mile course, commencing at the starting-point of the four-mile course and finishing at the Navy Yard. The Freshman race will be rowed as soon as possible after the four-oar race, starting at the Navy Yard and finishing at the railroad bridge. The University crew race will be rowed upstream at 4.30 o'clock, from the rail-road bridge to the start of the regular four-mile course. In case of postponement on account of unfavorable weather conditions the times for rowing will be decided and duly announced by the referee...
Applications for seats on the observation trains at the Harvard-Yale boat race should be filed at the Athletic Office at once, as all tickets must be returned to the Railroad Companies by tomorrow. H. A. A. ticket holders may secure preference in assignment by inserting their ticket numbers in the application. Blanks may be obtained at the Athletic Office, or at Leavitt & Peirce...
Gales Ferry, June 8.--This afternoon for the first time, under almost perfect weather conditions the Yale University crew rowed downstream over the regular four-mile course finishing at the railroad bridge in the fast time of 20m., 40 2-5s. The crew was followed by Coach Kennedy and several substitutes in the launch. The boat spaced smoothly over the water, and the men seemed little tired by the long row. Owing to Daly's enforced absence, Ortmeyer was tried at two, and rowed extremely well...
...last issue of "Bothsides" for the year which appeared yesterday contains; "The Inter-State Oratorical Contest of the Middle West," by H. D. Smith, Beloit College 1902, also accounts, outlines, criticisms and bibliographies of the following debates: "The Harvard-Yale Debate on Regulation of Railroad Rates," by W. M. Shohl '06; "The Michigan-Chicago Debate on the Integrity of the Chinese Empire," by H. P. Chandler '01, Secretary to the President of the University of Chicago; "The Nebraska-Iowa Debate on the Fourteenth Amendment-Suffrage-Restitution and Representation," by Professor M. M. Fogg of the University of Nebraska...
...Review contains the following articles: "'McCulloch vs. Maryland' in Australia," by H. B. Higgins, K.C., M.P., late attorney-general of Australia; "The Power of Congress to Regulate Railway Rates," by V. Morawetz, an authority on corporation law, and vice-president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad; "Special Legislation for Municipalities," by H. Hubbard, of New York...