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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hall table 30 decisively defeated table 46 by the score of 12 to 12. A free-for-all fight in the baseball match between the thin men and the fat men was the feature of the afternoon. The outcome was still undecided when the "King Philip" was scheduled to start on its way home...
These are facts which speak for themselves. The contest was friendly from the start, and when it was over, there was neither condescension from Cornell nor bitterness from Harvard. If we are as broad-minded here at Harvard as our ideals would have us, we cannot fail to profit by the gentlemanly example of the men at Cornell who have proved themselves such excellent hosts. SENIOR...
...race was rowed about six o'clock under perfect weather conditions. At the start the Cornell boat caught the water first and shot ahead, and settled down into a 32 stroke. The University crew pulled up slightly at the half-mile, rowing 29 strokes to the minute. At the mile, however, Cornell was half a length of open water in the lead and had lowered the stroke to 30. The University crew was rowing...
...second crew beat the third by half a length in a trial race downstream over the mile and seven-eighths course yesterday. The third crew got away at the start and led by a little over a length at Harvard Bridge. Then the second raised its stroke and pulled up steadily until the finish. The time was 10 minutes, 22 seconds...
...race was started upstream from the Union Boat Club at about 4.25 o'clock, with the crews in the following positions, beginning at the Beacon street wall: second Newell, second Weld, first Newell, first Weld. For the first few hundred yards all four crews kept well together, but gradually the second Newell gained a lead which they slowly but steadily increased, rowing at a stroke of about 30 to the minute. The second Weld, after a spurt at the start, settled down to a 26 stroke and passed the first Newell and first Weld crews before reaching the three-quarter...