Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Blue showed no signs of weakening or overstraining. The University also lost the Freshman and second University races, although in the latter contest there was less than a length between the two boats at the finish. On the first day of the regatta Harvard scored a clean sweep, winning handily in the Freshman four and graduates' eight events...
...major sports the University teams have made a clean sweep to date, baseball and crew still remaining undecided. The year began with the annual intercollegiate golf and tennis tournaments in September. In the former event, the University won individual honors and finished second to Princeton in the team matches. Tennis resulted in the doubles title coming here, Princeton defeating Harvard in the singles. In the first dual contest of the year with Yale, the cross-country team nosed out a victory, 27 to 28, and later took second place in the intercollegiate run, Yale finishing third. Football brought the first...
...University tennis team opened its home schedule with a clean sweep against Amherst, winning 6 matches to 0 in straight sets at the Jarvis Field courts on Saturday afternoon. The feature match was one of the doubles sets in which Captain R. N. Williams, 2d, '16 and G. C. Caner '17 defeated Cady and McCloy 6-0, 11-9. None of the University players was hard pressed to win in the singles, although Williams and Cady played two very close sets...
Wednesday was the big day of the southern trips. The baseball team won from the Midshipmen 12 to 11, and the tennis and lacrosse teams completed the clean sweep, with the track team easily defeating Technology in the Stadium...
...demands Red Cross contributions. But let University men think a little on the theory too. Far better were it if we had never rolled a bandage or thought of an auto-ambulance, than that we were to rest satisfied with Red Cross contributions alone. If a plague were to sweep across this country, it would be necessary to care for the sick; but how much more necessary to remove the causes of that plague and prevent its recurrence. It cannot be proven, but we believe it to be a fact, that if the energy and money which are now being...