Word: tide
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...course will be a quarter of a mile against the tide. The winners' cups will be left at Leavitt & Pierce's inside of a week...
...large dredge was going up the river it drifted across the bow line of the 'varsity launch thus pulling the rope so tight that the launch was overturned. It immediately filled with water and sank. The the dredging company put men at work Monday night and at low tide the launch was raised, Pumped out, and was ready for crew practice yesterday afternoon. The accident happened at a very unfortunate time as Perkins, captain of the '84 crew, had come up from New York to aid in coaching the crew and without the launch he could do nothing...
...number is "Harvard College during the War of the Rebellion" by Captain Nathan Appleton. Captain Appleton was of the class of '63, and his description of the state of affairs at Harvard at the breaking out of the war, when all the '63 men were Sophomores, "in the full tide of sumptuousness and just at the age to enjoy the excitements of the occasion," -is vivid in the extreme. He tells of the political excitement which permeated the men in the fall of 1860, of the student parades, of the many bright verses and squibs which the occasion brought forth...
...snobbish either, is in all branches of athletics to defeat Yale. This is certain to become still more the fact as time goes on and college athletics increase to such an extent that it will be impossible to arrange leagues large enough to settle definitely the "championship,"- a worthless tide at the best. It is not likely that Harvard will ever figure in intercoll grate leagues again; there seems to be a general sentiment again it among both students and the Faculty. But the writer in The Weeks Sport expects to see the restriction against playing in New York removed...
...Saturday's game at Springfield, was one of the prettiest exhibitions of scientific football that has ever taken place. It is a little late to talk over what might have been done by Yale to turn the tide of the game in their favor, but the reasons may be practically summed up as follows: Crosby and Hartwell were no match for the men opposite them. Yale's fumbles were very costly. Harvard's interference was much more effective than any one expected it would be. Lewis at centre, although he played a hard and plucky game, did not inspire confidence...