Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Junior eight was the first to swamp, and they were forced to head for shore early in the race, but before they had gone another ten yards the shell disappeared under the water. All the men reached the B. A. A. Boat Club safely...
...diamond and the river the University may expect to see a marked change in the future. But what of Harvard's achievements on track and field? Immediately the cry arises: "Why worry about the track team? Did they not make a favorable showing at the Penn games and swamp Technology in Saturday's meet...
...Yaphank is not a bad spot to spend the winter. Undoubtedly it is less frigid than Ayer; in fact the center of Long Island is supposedly ten degrees warmer than New York City itself. The coating of snow and ice will keep the terrible dust down; the monotany of swamp-oak will be broken by this time by the newly-laid out drill grounds and cantonments. To the New Englander it will be an education to live away from his native hearth,--to mix with people who did not cross on the Mayflower. Yaphank has been greatly over-estimated...
After one experience with a world-beating Harvard team that was almost universally expected to swamp a supposedly weak Yale team in 1910, I want to offer just a word to the undergraduates, with the exception of the Seniors: to them, I am sure, 1910 taught a valuable lesson...
...building on Boylston street near the Stadium bridge will probably be ready for use in time for the Brown football game, three weeks hence. The station has been erected expressly for the convenience of the people who attend football games; and in spite of the huge crowds which swamp Cambridge on the days of such contests, it is expected that it will be able to handle them with perfect facility. The platform has been constructed for trains of four cars, which can be run at two minute intervals when necessary. There are booths for twenty-two ticket sellers...