Word: redness
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...course, for which Captain Thompson had accused the referee of unfairness, but that he had also removed a snag from Yale's course. Captain Thompson admitted that this act of the referee counterbalanced the changing of the buoy. It was then explained that the referee's signals with a red handkerchief were directed, not at the Harvard crew, but at the engineer of his own little steamer, to regulate the speed. The charge that he signalled the Harvard crew was accordingly withdrawn. The last charge was that the referee had ordered Yale out of what Captain Thompson called Yale...
Sporting on her red...
...used to put barely coal enough on the fire to keep it from going out, and would leave the door open and me shivering as long as he could. But now mark the change. I wake up in the morning and find my grate heaped to overflowing with red-hot coals. If I go out, and leave the window open to cool it off, I come back and find that my faithful servant has been in and shut it before me allowing the mercury to regain its former position, and from that lofty eminence it smiles blandly upon...
...suggested to the great Mr. Cornell to found a family monument at Ithaca; long before Cornell became as great as it is to-day. The 'bandy-legged individual' on the cover represents the venerable Governor Yale, an elderly gentleman, a royal governor that befriended Yale College when the noble red-man built his camp-fire on the very spot where Cornell's great training-school for mechanics stands...
...full and red...