Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman four-oared crews will race the first and second crews of the Middlesex School over a half-mile course on the stretch above the Stillman Infirmary this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The Freshman crews have been together only a short time but have been doing well so far and should win this afternoon. The orders of the crews follow: Freshman A.--Stroke, E. D. Curtis; 3, L. Curtis; 2, Wentworth; bow, Walker; cox., Hay. Freshman B.--Stroke, Harrower; 3, Morgan; 2, Storer; bow, Saltonstall; cox., Roosevelt. Middlesex (first crew).--Stroke, Harwood; 3, Trumbull; 2, Emerson; bow, Morgan...
Interlaken, N. Y., May 24.--The University and Freshman crews arrived this morning. The University eight took a short row on the lake before lunch, although the water was very rough. In the afternoon both crews went out, the University rowing three miles in one stretch at a slow stroke, spacing out well, with a hard finish. The Freshmen also rowed well. The blade work was good and the boat spaced better than usual. All the men are in good condition...
...present all the men who are taking laboratory courses in Chemistry are compelled to stand from one to four hours at a stretch at the desks in Boylston and Dane Halls. It is needless to say that such an arrangement not only tires the aspiring chemists physically, but renders them mentally incapable of their best work. The Physics laboratories have stools for the comfort of the men who use them. It seems hardly fair that the most simple necessities for sustained labor should not be provided equally in all parts of the University; and we wish to call the attention...
...University crews were on the river for the first time this year yesterday afternoon. They rowed back and forth over a short stretch, free from ice, below the Boylston street bridge. Coach Wray watched the work from the bank...
Coolidge described his journey into East Africa via Nairobi to Kijabe, where he set out across a waterless desert with a train of bullock wagons to the Wandorobo river. This was the only method of crossing this stretch, for the bullocks were able to travel several days without water. Among the game he shot and photographed were lions, leopards, bush cats, cheetahs, ostriches, and rhinos...