Word: overtaken
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...passing Harvard square car, the rest, grimly resolved, returning to brave the terrors of a supper at Young's, and there drown the memory of their sad guilt. Hic jacit the custom of freshman theatre going, not by the hand of prerogative, not as token of failure, but overtaken by old age and debility it dies a natural death...
...easily won; for No. IV. tied them about three-quarters of the distance between the boat house and the finish, and the two crews rowed abreast until, through poor steering, they locked oars. No. IV. got disentangled first and crossed the line even with No. II., which had overtaken them on account of the foul. No. III. came in about an eighth of a length behind...