Word: straight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Harvard Crew Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 17, 1909.--Today's work for all the crews was the hardest since the arrival of the squads. As there was a strong south wind blowing straight down the course in the morning, the practice was necessarily very light. All the crews, except the Freshman four which went up into Moulthrop Inlet, rowed over to the west shore opposite the Freshman quarters at Red Top and paddled up and down over the last half-mile of the course. But in the afternoon the University crew was sent over the four-mile course...
...championship which is being held on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, N. W. Niles '09 lost, to G. T. Putnam, in a close and exciting match, 5-7, 8-6, 7-5. In the fourth round A. S. Dabney, Jr., '09, defeated F. H. Burr '09 in straight sets...
...University tennis team easily defeated Yale six matches to three at the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, last Saturday morning. The University team won four out of six matches in the singles, and two out of three in the doubles. Niles and Sweetser won their matches in the singles in straight sets and showed the best form of all the players. Sweetser played a very fast game with a well executed low ground drive. Nile's playing against the Yale captain N. C. Stevens was brilliant. All his shots were fast and perfectly made, and he won most of his points...
...minute at the start, the University crew settled down to a stroke of 32, and this pace was maintained until the finish, when the stroke was raised again to 38. It was not until after the first three bridges had been passed that Blagden was able to steer a straight course, and although the University crew had gained on the second, there was no opportunity to pass it until the bathing beach had been reached. At this point the second crew swung out wide in order to take the draw at the Cottage Farm Bridge, and the University crew took...
...undergraduates, the election of Mr. Lowell is of particular significance. No man in the Faculty of recent years has been more actively interested and has arrived at a fuller appreciation of certain problems of the student body. He has believed in going straight to the heart of things, of determining from the student himself what the actual situation is and planning a solution accordingly. It is to be expected he will pursue this policy. His especial interest during the past year, that of effecting the best method of rewarding high scholarship, in which he has done much constructive work...