Word: basin
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...university eights took an easy row yesterday, and attention was given rather to form than to speed. The crews took two stretches of a mile each in the lower basin and in both, Ayer's crew had the advantage. Bullard's crew showed the bad results of a second shake-up on account of the loss of Francis, who is threatened with appendicitis. The loss of Francis, following immediately upon Bullard's accident, and the consequent changes have weakened this crew to a considerable extent. Colby replaced Francis at seven, Lloyd took Bullard's regular seat at five and Sanger...
...stretches of nearly a mile each down stream in the lower basin, Bullard's crew finished slightly in the lead. At the Union Boat Club, Sanger was put in place of Smith at two in Ayer's crew; and in Bullard's crew, Dunbar replaced Lloyd at three, and Cunningham took Phillips's seat at two. On the way back, the two eights took the mile and seven-eighths stretch. At Harvard bridge Bullard's crew had a slight lead, but going somewhat out of the course to keep near the launch, finished over a length behind Ayer's crew...
...eights had a brush yesterday for over a mile and a half in the lower basin. For nearly a mile they remained side by side but after passing Harvard Bridge, Bullard's crew became ragged and finished two lengths behind McGrew's crew...
...same order as on Thursday, except that Hartwell was not tried at bow in Bullard's crew, because of a slight illness. E. C. Storrow '89 assisted Mr. Higginson in directing the work from the launch. In a brush of about a mile in the Charles River basin, McGrew's crew finished with a slight lead...
...Hollis will speak on "Practical and Theoretical Engineering" at the Prospect Union tomorrow night. On Wednesday, April 16, George Howland Cox, chairman of the Cambridge Park Commission, will speak on the merits of a dam across the Charles River for the purpose of forming a great water basin...