Word: basins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following the first appearance of two University crews on the Charles River last Tuesday afternoon, with five more taking to the water yesterday, Coach E. J. Brown '96 announced that beginning next week regular races will be held in the basin between the various shells. Coach Brown said that the crews went out on the river earlier this year than for the past three or four years, the average date for their first appearance being about March...
...break a rudder rope and not get it tangled with the bow, how to get into a shell after a crew has pushed off, without adopting the woeful methods of Buster Keaton, and how to steer a course nor'nor' east by nor' through the murky haze of the basin will be considered in every detail. The hardest feat to master, that of coxing two miles in a tight race and keeping the remnants of vocal cords in their natural position, will be the final triumph of the school...
...learned yesterday that a survey is being made of the Charles River Basin in order to secure a course nearer the Boston side where the water is more calm. If its is possible to do so, a two mile course without any curves may be laid out starting near the new Cottage Farm Bridge and ending at the Cambridge Bridge. The present course is one and three quarter miles in length...
...triangular crew race with M.I.T. and Cornell does not appear on the crew schedule released last night by the Harvard Athletic Association, but Harvard will meet M.I.T. in the first race of the season on May 4 and will race Cornell in the Charles River Basin on May 11. The University crew race with Yale is scheduled for June 21 at New Have...
Before her last voyage she was overhauled in drydock at Brooklyn. A minor collision in the Erie basin as she left dry-dock did no more than scrape paint. After this she was examined by three U. S. Department of Commerce inspectors, who spent three days in their work and certified her "seaworthy and equipped according to law." During the inspection every lifeboat was tested; filled with men, lowered to the water and raised again...