Word: seven
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Twenty-seven men have signified to Professor Briggs their intention to compete for the prizes...
Later in the afternoon the three crews composing the Freshman squad raced up-stream over the mile and seven-eighths course in the basin. The second crew was given a start of a length over the first, and the third was given a length and a half over the second. At the finish the first crew was about ten lengths ahead of the third, and the third half a length ahead of the second. The first crew passed the other two halfway between the start at the Union Boat Club and the Harvard Bridge, and from here the race developed...
Yesterday afternoon the University tennis team easily defeated Princeton at Princeton by winning six out of nine matches played; five out of seven in the singles, and two out of three in the doubles. Actually Princeton only won one match, Raleigh defeating Cutting in the singles, but as E. L. Beard '10 returned to Cambridge after the matches were postponed on Saturday through a misunderstanding, Princeton won two matches by default, one in the singles and one in the doubles. during the play there was a high wing blowing. The scores were as follows...
...four-mile race from the Stillman Infirmary to the Union Boat Club the University crew defeated the second crew last Saturday afternoon by about seven and one-half lengths. The second crew was given a start of 10 seconds or about three lengths and was fully four and one-half lengths behind at the end of the race. No time was taken...
...Saturday afternoon, April 17, the University crew easily defeated Columbia over the mile and seven-eighths course in the basin by about six lengths. The time of the University crew was 9 minutes, 54 seconds, and Columbia finished in 10 minutes, 13 seconds. The victory was a decisive one; after the first stroke , when the bow of the Columbia shell went a few inches ahead, the University crew led throughout. Early in the race it could be seen that Columbia had suffered from lack of practice, for the men were rowing more as eight individuals than as a crew...