Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Columbia made a clean sweep of the annual. Intercollegiate Fencing Association tournament in New York on Saturday, winning the team, individual, and saber championships. The standing of the teams at the finish was: Columbia, won 32, lost 13; Navy, 30-15; Cornell, 21-24; Pennsylvania, 20-25; Harvard, 17-28; Yale, 16-29. The individual members of the University team scored the following number of wins: J. A. Aylen '15, 3; S. F. Damon '14, 5; and R. von Nardroff...
Harvard won her eleventh successive chess victory from Yale last night by a score of 6 to 4. The first three boards weer a clean sweep for the University, B. Winkelman '15, F. M. Currier '16, and F. P. Beal, And., defeating H. D. Hooker 2G., D. A. Quarles '16, and R. Beach '14. The fourth board was a draw between D. M. Beers '15 and G. C. Job '14 (Yale), while L. R. Ford, 2G. was defeated by T. A. Lightner '15 (Yale) on the fifth. The sixth board resulted in a draw between A. S. Terry '15 (Yale...
...fourth time in five years the Harvard crews made a clean sweep of the annual boat races with Yale on the Thames at New London, on June 20. The University eight won by ten lengths in 21 minutes, 42 seconds; the University four won by eight lengths, and the Freshman eight by one length. In the preliminary races the day before, the University second four and the Freshman four won by about six and four lengths respectively over a mile course...
...life; but don't for a moment imagine that Oxford and Cambridge will remain forever secure in their traditions. The English are more conservative than we, and their traditions are deeper-rooted than ours. Consequently their universities are enjoying, or at any rate having, a longer immunity from the sweep and rush of modern conditions. But they will succumb! Slowly but irresistibly the change will be wrought, and Oxford and Cambridge will be offering their graduate course in business, their higher instruction in industrial administration. The modern gods 'Efficiency' and 'Utility' will get them...
...College is to turn out and march. Today is one of those times. Class spirit and Kanrich's band should stir every 1916 man to join the parade to Soldiers Field to see the class team meet its deadliest yet worthiest rival in an effort to continue the clean sweep which 1916 teams have so far had over Yale 1916. Track followers announce that the meet will be close, and perhaps whole-hearted support or lack of it will account for a victory or a defeat...