Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Following the dinner, Major Higginson introduced William S. Hall '69, the toast master of the evening, who told briefly of the days when Harvard crews raced on Lake Quinsigamond. As an old warrior once said, "The battle of Waterloo was won on the cricket ground at Eton." The place to...
The third annual cross-country run with Yale will be held on the Yale course at New Haven at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon. Each team will be made up of eight men, and the first five to finish on each will score. Each place will count according to its...
The members of the two teams are as follows: Harvard--W. H. Fernald '12, G. R. Harding '11, P. C. Heald '11, H. Y. Masten '10, W. P. Rogers '11, R. H. Rowse '12, E. L. Viets '11, P. R. Withington '12; Yale--A. M. Bidwell '11S., W. McK. Dunn...
The Harvard Club of Boston gave a dinner last evening at the Hotel Somerset in honor of the University crew of 1909, to which the Freshman eight and four, and the Gentlemen's eight were also invited. About 350 members of the club were present. At the raised table were...
After prolonged cheering, President Lowell spoke on intercollegiate contests as a means of college solidarity. "There is no more valuable habit in life that any man can acquire than the habit of winning; and athletics is a means to that end. But there are many men not on the crew...