Word: side
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crew has been somewhat handicapped of late. McDuffie, who has a strained side, is only able to row a short time each day. When he goes out, Marvin goes to 7 and Swift is put in at bow. Yesterday Captain Perkins was unable to row and Donald was put in at 5. The crew was out but a short time as Mr. Perkins devoted most of the afternoon to coaching the men in tubs. The changing about has set the crew back and they consequently do not show so much improvement as the other crews. They have, however, when doing...
...committee, therefore, have decided to try this year arranging the series in a way which can be best described as an imitation of the bumping races held between the different English college crews. In those races the crews are started not side by side but one behind theother, and race not one day but on several days. If on the first day a crew overtakes and bumps the one ahead of it, then on the second day these crews change places, so that a crew has a chance to move up towards the head one place for each...
...This has been made into a forecourt by means of a wall on the east running to the street, and by carrying along the front a fence of iron with brick posts and an ornamental gate-way in keeping with the Harvard gates. This fence, if continued on either side in the future, will serve to reconcile the building still further to its position. The court in front is designed as a small, quiet garden to be laid out with vines and formal planting toward the street, and a stone seat against the wall at the widest part...
Broad oak stairs with a landing lead from the marble mosaic floor below to the second floor where is the General Committee Room with retiring room adjoining. On either side are two society rooms 17x27 with class rooms and a library...
...official acceptance of the challenge sent by Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia for a chess match by cable has been received from Oxford University. The Englishmen consider six players on a side sufficient, and suggest April 20 as the date of the match. They further suggest that no player shall be eligible for more than five years from the date of his matriculation as a mean between the qualifications for English and American intercollegiate chess matches. This tournament is to be held under the patronage of the Manhattan Chess Club...