Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...registration at the Summer Schools this year showed a slight decrease, falling short of last year's attendance by the small margin of ten. The total number registered this year was 797, as against 807 last year and 778 for the summer...
...University eights rowed the four mile course down-stream from a point opposite Red Top to the railroad bridge. The start was made at 3.45 P. M. with a favoring tide but a slight head wind. Yale caught the water first and took a slight lead which they held for a short time. Then the University crew rowing a slightly lower stroke began to pick up. Soon after passing the half-mile mark the University eight passed the Yale boat and was not threatened thereafter. Between the mile and the mile and a half flags the Yale crew made...
...third year in succession the Freshman eights furnished the most exciting race of the day. This year they rowed the same course that the four-oared crews had just been over. Both crews started together, but Harvard by using a slightly faster stroke obtained a slight lead which was gradually increased until at the mile mark Harvard was leading by a length. Yale then spurted and regained a quarter of a length, but at the end of the spurt the Freshman drew away again, and by spurting at the finish led Yale by a quarter of a length of open...
...university four against Yale, as well as promising material from the Freshman eight. When practice began in the fall, Pirnie was put in at stroke; Morgan, Trumbull, Stratton filling in places left vacant. Although the crew seemed to be going very well, yet it was unable to overcome a slight handicap in the final fall race and was beaten by the second crew...
Harvard Training Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 9, 1913.--All the crews were given a long spin this morning, paddling at an easy gait down-stream for the first two miles and returning at a somewhat faster pace. Captain Abeles was out of the boat on account of a slight cold, but followed the crew in the launch. A change was made in the University four, Saltonstall taking Carver's place at bow, the latter going down to the second four...