Word: afloat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...went aground on a mud bank off the Crescent Boat Club house. The skid on the keel stuck in the mud and prevented the tide from floating the launch. She soon began to fill and the engineer was compelled to swim ashore. Efforts were made to get the launch afloat yesterday, but were unsuccessful. A lighter of the Boston Towing Company has been hired, and it is expected that the launch will be run off at high tide this morning, about four o'clock...
...rooms of the boat-house is leased to it for its exclusive use, the rent to be paid by assessment. Many men have joined the club who have no canoes as yet, but most of these are building crafts destined to beat anything of the kind afloat. In the spring a regatta will be held on Charles river, open to all members of the club which will consist of sailing and double and single paddling races of all classes. A challenge has been received from Brown University Canoe Club which will probably be accepted. It is hoped that the canoe...
There is a rumor afloat that the H. A. A. is about to take the flooding of Holmes Field in hand. It is to be hoped the report is well founded...
There is a plan afloat at Yale to build a tank large enough to contain a stationary shell, in which the crew can get practice in rowing on water during the winter...
...university will be posted September 28. It is stated on good authority that Dunn, catcher of '86, has been elected captain of the nine. On the campus all sorts of rumors concerning phenomenal pitchers and catchers, backs, half-backs and rushers coming into college with the freshmen are afloat. One senior asserts that Dunn, last year's catcher, has a little brother who is coming here this year, who can hold his pitching and who has played base-ball since he left off his swaddling clothes...