Word: stake
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Fifteen seconds allowance for shells over laps in each race. There will be two stake-boats to avoid the chance of fouls...
Course.- On Lake Saratoga, from nine stake-boats anchored in line below Snake Hill; thence three miles straightaway to a line near the entrance of Fish Creek...
...becomes more evident every year that success at the bat and oar is only to be attained by persevering and enthusiastic labor. Let no petty or local dispute interfere where the honor of our University is at stake. The careless and cynic spirit should be frowned down; and every one should seek to contribute, in the way most suited to his abilities, to the honor and eminence of Harvard. Let those who are blessed with a good biceps grasp the bat or the oar; let those who have not that too common holy reverence for a pen seek to relieve...
...everybody knows, the great event of the week, the University race, was twice postponed on account of rough water, and the crowds which assembled on the afternoons of Thursday and Friday were somewhat thinned on the morning of Saturday the 18th. The boats came into position before their respective stake-boats, off Snake Hill, at a little before eleven o'clock, in the following order from the east or right-hand shore, looking down the course...
...winter and spring, would undoubtedly have made a much better show if their No. 5 had not the misfortune to slip the button of his oar beyond the rowlock, which of course necessitated their stopping at a time of vital importance to them, and when their position near the stake was wrested from them. Yet as soon as possible they started again, and almost recovered the whole ground lost by the end of the race, coming in a good second...