Word: basin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Thursday, May 19th. - Race for organized fours over one mile course in the Basin. Fee $2 per crew. Flags given to winners...
Saturday, May 21st. - Single shell race in new club singles over three quarter mile course in the Basin. Men in same heat may agree to use their own boats. Fee 50c. Handsome mug to winner, and also second prize...
Yesterday, the crew took its usual two hour row up into the basin, the order being as follows...
...encountered in the river, the change from the tank to the river was welcome because of the superior facilities for practice which it gives the men. From half-past four till six the crew spent in rowing from the boat house down the river into the basin, as far as the Harvard Bridge and back again. As was natural for the first day there was some splashing, but, on the whole, the result of the practice was satisfactory. The crew which rowed yesterday was composed as follows...
...been formed the longest, parts of them having always remained above water. The sediment washed by the sea from these protruding tracts has formed lime-stone and sand stone about their edges and the strata of these rocks is therefore much thicker here than in regions like the Mississippi basin which have been often submerged. One of the great theories of mountain formation takes these sedimentary rocks and their overloading of the earth's crust for the cause of the uplifting. The study of such movements and their influence on neighboring formations well explains the existence not only of many...