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...every bit of their ability and Terry was not allowing the men on his side of the boat to fall behind, but the race was too hard and every stroke sent the Tigers and Midshipmen a few inches further ahead. At the one-mile mark, the while Princeton flag went down a fraction of a second ahead of the blue and several moments before the Crimson. Now came Navy's long awaited spurt and her supporters gave evidence of the fact that they had confidence in its outcome. Up, up went the stroke to 36, while the Navy oarsmen kept...
...less experienced men. Starting off quite well, the Princeton men kept up a higher stroke longer and by this means forget into a lead of more than a length at the half-mile mark. From then on the race was all Princeton's. The mile came and the white flag fell with the Crimson crew four or five lengths in the rear. Even under such conditions Duncan was game and put up the stroke, and for a half mile Princeton gained little more. But their attempt had been too much for them and in the final quarter. Crew B dropped...
Through the kindness of Dean J. H. Ropes '89, of Cotuit, three Civil War flags of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 20th Regiment, will be encased upon the east wall of Memorial Hall. The flags were donated to the Regiment by friends, at its organization in 1861. They have passed into the hands of the University through Colonel William Raymond Lee, commander of the Regiment in 1861, who left them to his former adjutant, Colonel Charles Lawrence Peirson, who in turn left them to the University. Colonel Peirson died recently and his nephew, Professor Theodore Lyman, '97 and Dean Ropes have...
...Cape Cod's glory. Boys went to sea at the age of twelve, and often became captains before they were twenty-one. A man who was in Rio de Janerio in the Fifties once told me that of the fifty-six ships he once saw flying the American flag in the harbor of Rio, forty-eight were commanded by Cape Coders...
...knows three things: first, that Cape Cod is the finest place in the world; second, that its people are the finest in the world; and third, that he is the finest of them all. But all the same, these old seamen were great characters. They didn't do any flag-waving, they didn't make the eagle, scream. They were sturdy, dignified and fond of having their own way; a phrase coined some years ago just fits them--100 percent American...