Word: won
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Following the dinner, Major Higginson introduced William S. Hall '69, the toast master of the evening, who told briefly of the days when Harvard crews raced on Lake Quinsigamond. As an old warrior once said, "The battle of Waterloo was won on the cricket ground at Eton." The place to prepare for the struggles of life is in the struggles at college. He finished by presenting President Lowell...
...consolation cross-country run yesterday, over two laps of the two-mile course around Soldiers Field, was won by P. Newton '11, W. F. Ryan '11 was second, and S. Nichols '13 was third. At the start, C. W. Putnam '12 took the lead, but was passed, at the end of the first lap, by Nichols, Newton, Burrage, and Ryan, who led in that order. On the second lap, Ryan sprinted and led from the Newell gate to a point a mile from the finish. Here, Newton, who had been following closely, passed him and, during the rest...
...University second football team will play the second game of its season today with Fort McKinley on Soldiers Field at 3.30 o'clock. The second team has won the only game it has played so far, defeating Williston...
...Seniors won the interclass shoot yesterday afternoon, defeating the Juniors in the second preliminary match by the score of 172 to 136, and winning from the Sophomores in the final round by the large margin of 41 birds, the score being 172 to 131. Owing to the fact that several men were unable to shoot on Friday, the two matches were run off in one, the team making the best score of the Senior and Junior match counting that score against the Sophomores' score for the final match...
Yesterday afternoon the University crew won an exciting and fiercely-fought race on the Charles River by finishing a few feet of open water ahead of the second crew, which in turn finished about ten lengths ahead of the third crew. An unfortunate blunder on the part of cox-swain King marred the race somewhat, but served to bring out the splendid spirit of the University eight, a spirit which wins races against heavy odds. Just before reaching the Cottage Farm Bridge the University crew ran into a launch anchored in the stream. All four starboard oars...