Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reaction on the outside public is a matter which should be well considered. The stretch between Wilfred Humphries being allowed to speak at Harvard and encouraged to speak at Harvard is not a long one. We do not wish it thought that the University believes in such tactics as his, for it is not true. We would not object to a sober and intellectual discussion of Russian affairs, both from admirers and critics, but we do object to unbalanced speeches from avowed propagandists...
Some of the men who made large subscriptions to the fund during the three-day stretch were: J. Byrne '77, of New York, $150,000; N. P. Hallowell '97, of Boston, $15,000; A. Koshland '90, of Boston, $5000; A. P. Loring '78, of Beverly, $5000; R. B. Williams '96 of Boston, $5000; E. F. Leland, '91, of Boston, $5000; J. R. Perkins '14, of New York, $5000; W. B. Nichols '16, of New York...
...their return from this short preliminary stretch, the crews lined up for a half-mile brush which ended rather abruptly when the Freshmen, having drawn too near the Western shore, fouled the second University boat. All the oarsmen were in the best of condition, and, considering the fact that today's event was merely an informal warming up, it was considered very satisfactory...
Cornell's victory did not obscure, however, the most spectacular race of the day, in which Dennis F. O'Connell '21 making the best time he had ever done in the mile, passed Crawford of Lafayette, who had been picked to win, on the last stretch and broke the tape two feet ahead of his opponent. O'Connell at the start ran in fourth place but at the half-way mark passed McDermott of Cornell and Bartels of Johns Hopkins into second place; and except for a premature spurt by O'Brien of Yale on the last...
...Stretch '22 was drowned yesterday in the swimming tank of the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. The body was discovered this morning by one of the directors, and the medical examiner of the Y. M. C. A. says that the body was in the water a number of hours. Stretch had recently taken out a summer membership in the Association...