Word: signal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...soon as all 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 tow boats will be moored, at distances 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...
...Referee will say, "Gentlemen, are you ready?" and getting no reply, and seeing no coxswain hold up his hand as a signal that his crew is not ready, the Referee will fire a shot gun, after an interval of from two to four seconds as a signal...
...frankness was displayed in wholly ignoring the announcements of the elective pamphlet concerning the composition courses. The cause which was given for this action is the same as that which has been assigned for many other slight idiosyncrasies of our famous university. It is the cause of the signal failure of the library to enlighten our minds after sunset; the cause which has occasioned those ever recurring topics of conversation, the pumps, the state of the yard, the onslaught of barbaric muckerism and their like. It is simply the lack of means coupled with the accessory idea of lack...
...lacrosse team which has just won such signal victories over the best omateur teams in the United States, has, shameful to say, been hardly supported at all by the college. It is needless to say that the team's expenses have been heavy, and it is also unnecessary to say that they ought to be assumed by the college. Now the team has been able to play but three games in Cambridge this year, owing to the difficulty with which matches are arranged with the local clubs. They have therefore arranged a game for this afternoon to take place...
...other spectators will be attracted to the game from a desire to see a sharply played match between two strong nines; for the Dartmouth team, which we defeated this spring by the small score of 3 to 2, has given a new proof of its strength by gaining a signal victory over Brown by a score...