Word: vaines
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...both crews rowing 34 strokes to the minute. At the bridge the University crew had increased its lead to two lengths of open water, and Cornell had dropped its stroke to 30. At this point the visiting crew made a desperate effort to make good its loss, but in vain, as the University crew continued to draw away. By the time the finishing line was reached, the crew was 10 lengths to the good, and finished with a lively spurt, 17 full strokes ahead of Cornell. The Harvard time was 10 minutes, 47 seconds; Cornell's time was 11 minutes...
...will be. There is one thing, however, on which we can rest assured: the petition and the proposed plans of the undergraduate committee, which will soon be made public, are going to have a good deal of weight and no one need feel that our efforts have been in vain...
...three runs were scored. Harvey led off with a base on balls and stole second. Dana was out, Paine to Hall, and Harvey reached third. Kelly struck out, but Leonard hit to left for two bases, scoring Harvey. Keefe hit to right centre. Both Kemble and Pond made vain attempts to get the ball, but only succeeded in sending it farther into the outfield. In the meantime Leonard and Keefe came home...
There appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON a notice stating that there would be no meeting in Music 3. Professor Spalding, whose name was signed to the notice, but who had had nothing to do with its insertion, waited in vain for his class. It is with chagrin that we must publicly announce that there is still among us a man who stoops to forgery as a means of avoiding attendance at his lectures. Afraid to face the result of his own cuts, he has adopted the method of the coward. Unfortunately this individual will remain in our midst, enjoying...
...clear and concise logic he shows the folly of adapting a method of rejoicing over athletic victories to an occasion so sacred as the birth of our founder. We understand that some men may feel above such a childish display of animal spirits, but we scan the communication in vain to find an adequate alternative. True, the writer suggests that the Faculty should have planned academic ceremonies which would conform to the dignity of the anniversary, but this the Faculty refused to undertake. If they had, it would, indeed, have required a fertile imagination to devise a program which would...