Word: basin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...PORTER. Secretary.TEN MILE ROAD RACE. - Every man who rides a wheel should enter the ten mile road race next Saturday. It is especially intended for non-racing men, and large handicaps will be given. The course will be nine times around the basin of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. Entries may be made either at Thurston's or at 13 Wadsworth House. Three H. U. C. A. medals will be given...
...Friday the crew did not get out till very late in the afternoon. They went down into the Basin; and in spite of the rough water tried the hard, four mile pull back. The crew was made up as follows: Stroke, Perkins '91; 7, Kelton '93; 6, Vail '93; 5, Cummings '93; 4, Lynam M. S.; 3, Rantoul '92; 2, Powers '92; bow, Jones '92. Newell '94, regularly at bow, was in the launch...
Saturday in the Basin the launch picked up J. J. Storrow, Jr., '85, and R. Herrick '90. In company with Adams, L. S., they carefully watched the crew till it came in to the boat house...
...varsity pulled down the river for a four mile stretch back. On getting into the Basin the rough, choppy sea caused Captain Perkins to hesitate a little; but he decided to start and stop when necessary. From Craigie's Bridge to Harvard Bridge the water was very bad. The boat took much water and the men were well drenched. Above Harvard Bridge the water was better. There the second crew was waiting. The 'varsity settled together a little better and gave the "coaxer" a good pull to the next bridge. From this on the 'varsity went alone. The strong head...
...boat house with the rest of the crew Monday afternoon, and as the barge was full Captain Perkins decided to let him go out in a single, first making sure that he could manage it, and that he knew how to swim. The crew rowed down to the basin, and Shaw, after rowing about for some time in front of the boat house, followed them. It was just below the Western Avenue bridge that the accident happened. Whether the shell struck on a sunken pile and capsized, dragging Shaw under by the toe straps, or whether Shaw, finding the boat...