Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high in the water despite the weight of the present eight. For the past few years some well-known critics of rowing have declared that the University crews have been down at the bow. A consideration of the weights as published on Thursday and of the shell as it rode yesterday makes it clear, however, that this criticism cannot be repeated this year. The shell has been rigged under the direction of Dr. Howe and the Graduate Committee on Rigging and has been carefully fitted to the individual oarsmen. The specifications of the shell are as follows...
When we were taken to the college, we rode the half mile from the Hospital in our Ford and entered the campus though the college age. But we were cold that people had not been able to do this for nearly a year, and were shown the trenches by which the college had communicated with the city all through the siege. The campus is marked off by walls and trenches, the surrounding wall is pierced for rifle and for machine gun fire, and big guns are still in their places on the top of the hill, pointing in all directions...
...Berlin a superficial glance about as one left the station and rode through the streets showed fewer departures the streets showed fewer departures from normality than might have been expected. Station and streets were well filled; there were plenty of taxis waiting, duly equipped with pneumatic tires: policing was good, and shop windows were attractively dressed. The appearance and behavior of the crowds seemed perfectly ordinary. On the other hand the standard of clothing was low,--thought not as conspicuously so as we had expected; there were a good many old uniforms; there were not many private automobiles about...
...Crimson launched a smashing offensive which registered three tallies before the gong rang. Captain Bigelow, a couple of minutes after the opening of the play, ran through Stubbs and Morton for a score, and a few minutes later Buntin eluded the B. A. A. forwards, split the defense, rode through to draw Lacroix-out of position and caged the puck in a rough-and-tumble scrimmage which ended with a somersault into the boards...
...mounted escort of 40 men, under Captain Goetz, rode over the route of the Memorial Day procession, in order to familiarize themselves with the procedure. Captain Goetz expressed himself as very much pleased with the work of the Unit on its first ride through the streets in formation...