Word: roped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...must be taken by Harvard. The rival colleges howled for Lafayette, and our delegation cheered for Harvard. At the drop our team was successful, and soon they had six inches to their credit. Then our men sat still and let the Lafayette men try to take the rope back. Easton, however, sat it out calmly, and could not be moved. At the end of four minutes, the word was give, Harvard heaved, Easton came down, and the Lafayette anchor rose to an angle of 45 degrees. Had the rope been less stiff and more manageable, he would have been pulled...
...Balch, '88. Easton, L. S. was unable to anchor the university, as he was to play on the lacrosse team against Princeton. The tug was for three minutes on cleats, and the drop was won by the university, who after a minute had a good six inches of rope on their side. Balch, '88 attempted by repeated heaves to bring the ribbon back to his side, but was in vain, and at the lapse of the three minutes, the university had won by five clear inches. While the tug was going...
...soon as the crews have passed through the draw, a long whistle will be sounded from the referee's tug as the signal for the crews to get into line. A rope will be stretched across the river, to which four row boats will be moored at a distance of one hundred feet apart. A man in each boat will hold the stern of a shell. As soon as the shells are in line, two whistles will be sounded as a signal for the men to come out to the full reach...
...college education. Thus both employer and apprentice join in running down a career which is as full of promise for an highly educated man as for the graduate from the High School. One of the thinkers of the century has said that "a man of education will pull a rope better than a common seaman, at the end of a long voyage," and this principle applies as well to business as to nautical life...
Eighty-eight won the drop by a fraction of an inch, but did not hold it long, and at the end of two minutes the ribbon, was exactly in the middle. Both sides lay on the rope for the next minute, and each anchor was laying for the other in order to catch him in case he should start to heave. During the fifth minute, Balch took in rope, and by a succession of powerful heaves brought the ribbon one and a half inches over to his side, where it remained until time was called. The victorious team was carried...