Word: finished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentlemen's agreement to turn over their summer earnings to the funds of their Alma Mater's athletic association and begin life over again. Besides greatly improving the quality of the nation's athletic teams it might swell the A. A. surpluses to such size that various institutions might finish their gymnasiums and have an endowment...
...Yale members of the team and their coaches will come to Cambridge to train for the meet with their Crimson associates on June 24. Both squads journey to New Haven on July 7 to meet the English athletes and practice together for two days, returning to Cambridge to finish training a few days before the meet...
...Wednesday the eights started off together from the Perkins Institute and pulled down to the bottom of the half mile stretch which is above the Newell Boathouse. The oarsmen kept up a steady beat of about 28 for the first two miles and raised it gradually to sprinting finish during most of the final half mile. The row took about 15 minutes and the first eight was about three quarters of a length ahead at the finish with P. H. Watts '31 rowing a slightly higher beat than Harrison of the Jayvees...
...crew squad to fill in at bow. The eights paddled separately from the Perkins Institute to the Newell Boathouse, a distance of about three and one half miles. The beat was kept low for most of the distance but was raised gradually to the high 30's at the finish...
...crew which they had taken early in the race, responding to every attempt the latter made to pass. At the bend in the river by the Weeks bridge the leading crew increased its margin, but dropped back again when it had the outside on the next bend. At the finish it was almost a dozen feet behind the hand-pressing third University shell...