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...word was given, the inside crew getting the word first and the advantage at the start. Cornell was pulling forty strokes to the minute, Harvard thirty-six. When a half-mile was finished Cornell was a little in advance, which lead was increased until a mile and a third, when half a length of open water separated the two boats. At a mile and three quarters, Brandegee increased Harvard's stroke to forty-one, and slightly closed...
...face Carter for the last time as the Nine of 1878, and the way they batted that ball was delightful to behold. Tyng, after Thayer had gone out by Walden to Downer, hit safely for two bases in the direction of left field, and took third on the inability of two thirds of the Yale nine standing one behind another to stop the ball fielded in by Brown; this had no effect detrimental to the earning of Tyng's run, as no chance was offered to put him out; and Latham, Ernst, and Wright followed with safe hits, and earned...
...their Alma Mater. Although the summa cum laude was not attained by any member of the class, it is well known that one at least came so near as only to miss it; and to another triple honors were awarded, the highest in two studies, and honors in a third, - a distinction almost without precedent. We bid adieu to '78. Many faces long familiar will be missed from our accustomed paths, but in their places will arise pleasant memories of the past, and with these will be associated youth's bright hopes for the future...
...entire race, and it was evident to any one who watched their rowing that they had not broken themselves of a bad habit of pausing, or "hanging" at the beginning of the stroke. For the next half-mile Harvard kept the same stroke; but at the end of the third quarter, when the crimson was four lengths ahead of the blue, they slackened to 34 strokes per minute, while Yale was rowing 32. At the beginning of the second mile Yale gained about a length on our crew by pulling 34 to the minute, but lost it before...
SUMMARY.New London, Conn. June 28, 1878. Third annual race of eight-oared University crews, four miles, straight away...