Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...considering the element of better men or the great disadvantage a poor track like Yale's was to a team trained and raced all the season on one of the best tracks in the country. The records made in the U. of P. games one week before did not show overtraining, and there was no suggestion of it from any one. The team did no hard work between May 8 and 15, no work whatever except a little jogging Tuesday and Wednesday, complete rest being allowed all other days...
...knowledge that the plans for a University Infirmary at least show some signs of taking definite shape will be very gratifying to those who have been living in Cambridge and realize the almost universal need of such an institution. It certainly seems that such a project, now that it is known to be good one, should be taken up and pushed through with as little delay as possible. It is to be sincerely hoped that such plans as there now are can be made to reach some tangible results during the coming year...
Judging from the showing made in the race, when the introduction of the new stroke and the untiring efforts of efficient coaches enabled the crew to show their superiority over all others, it would seem that they stood an excellent chance of winning, even from the best club crews in the country. A comparison of times also ranks the crew as one of the very first. Their most formidable rivals will be the crew of the N. Y. A. C., the Atlantas, and the Pennsylvania Barge Club's eight. The men will go to their quarters on the Schuylkill...
Both the intermediate and junior crews show excellent form at present and are rowing the regular distance in fast time. Owing to the withdrawal of the other intermediate entries, the Weld crew has transferred its entrance to the senior event...
...undergraduates, that the painting of the John Harvard statue is not the outcome of any Harvard spirit or Harvard enthusiasm, but rather the act of a band of cowardly dare-devils. These individuals may or may not be members of the University, and it is very important to show that it was personal and individual spite and not any University feeling which prompted this barbarous act. The act of these few ought to be held up and the offenders sought out and punished for the trespass. Thus the enormity of the crime will not reflect upon all Harvard students...