Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ready at the Brookline Bridge promptly at the appointed hour, 4.30 p. m. The stern of each shell will be held from a boat attached to a rope stretched across the river. As soon as the shells are in position one long whistle will be blown as a preparatory signal. Twenty seconds after this signal, three short, sharp whistles will signify, "Are you ready...
...first starting signal (a gun shot) will be gives at any moment after the three whistles...
...sacrifice hitting. But the weakness at the bat was insignificant compared to the exhibition of base-running which the nine gave. It would have disgraced the weakest school team. In the first place, as soon as a Harvard runner got on a base it seemed to be the signal for him to show utter disregard of the coaching. The coachers in their turn got "rattled," and whenever the runners deigned to pay the slightest attention to their coaching, invariably told them to do the wrong thing. The last of the game was not so tiresome, for it began...
...first made this rule, it was the immediate object of increasing the membership of the H. A. A. and ultimately of advancing the whole system of athletics at Harvard. That the Association has succeeded in its object to a high degree is shown by Harvard's signal success in track and field athletics...
...when and where the congratulation dinner to the foot ball team will take place; for it seems to be a foregone conclusion that such a dinner would be appropriate. Last year we had a dinner for the purpose of increasing the interest in foot ball, and it was a signal success; a dinner, now that something has been done, would be even more beneficial. The interests of Harvard are now too widely scattered; graduates and undergraduates do not understand one another well enough, and a great gathering as at a dinner, always bears good results. Whoever is going to take...