Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...quarter past three this morning, less than 15 minutes after the passage of the war resolution by the House, Dean Briggs, acting with the power intrusted to him on March 26 by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, issued the accompanying statement calling off all formal athletics at the University. The Dean has recently conferred with Professor Conwin of Yale and Dean McClenahan, of Princeton, who were acting in a similar capacity for their respective universities, and a joint decision to abolish intercollegiate athletics when war should be declared was reached. It is understood that they have already...
There was also a short one-mile race between the first two University shells which the second won by a quarter-length, although it rowed a slightly lower stroke. By the return of D. L. Moody '18, who had been out with an attack of the measles, and of A. Coolidge '17, the first boat took on a more normal appearance than it has shown during the confusion of the last three of four days. F. B. Whitman '19 and R. R. Brown '17 were shifted to their old positions at 2 and 6; Coolidge took his former position...
...boats started rowing a 28 stroke, but this was quickly dropped to 24. From the beginning the Juniors pulled into the lead, and at the quarter-mile mark were ahead by a fourth of a length. The 1918 crew were smoother, and, rowing a higher stroke, put more drive into the shell. At the half-mile they had increased their lead to three lengths, which they maintained to the finish. The Sophomores did not put their stroke up until the last four hundred yards, and then it was too late to cut down the open water between the boats...
...Half and quarter milers...
...declared, he expects to return to College about May 1. The loss of Willcox will be keenly felt both by the track and baseball teams. He was anchor man on the relay team this winter, won the 440 in the Yale meet last year, and has done the quarter in the remarkable time of 43 seconds fist...