Word: basins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bettering its Thursday clocking by over 18 seconds, the Varsity crew again outrowed the Jayvees in the Basin on Saturday morning finishing the 1 3-4 mile course in 9 minutes, 12 seconds. The seconds, trailing by two lengths, were timed at 9 minutes, 16 seconds...
...first official time trial since the Princeton-M.I.T. regatta, the first varsity eight finished two lengths ahead of the seconds over the 1 3-4--mile course in the basin yesterday afternoon. The Varsity was clocked at 9 minutes, 33 3-5 seconds, the Jayvees at 9 minutes, 35 4-5 seconds...
Despite a last-minute spurt of power and tightening up of form all around, the Harvard Varsity eight was unable to stave off a 2 3/4 length defeat at the hands of the Tiger, in its first intercollegiate contest of the season Saturday afternoon in the Basin. Princeton had gained a sizeable lead at the getaway, and held it easily almost until the end of the fast 1 3/4 mile course, finishing in 9 minutes, 18 seconds, as compared with the Crimson boat, which crossed the line in 9 minutes, 27 seconds. M.I.T. came in a poor third, about three...
...suspected. There is talk of a youth carrying a long box with Easter lilies sticking out from one end; of other youths smelling of liquor. But codfish begets thirst. Were these the lads to seek an appetizer? With great acumen the police searched the waters of the Charles River Basin, apparently under the impression that the Sacred Cod had transformed himself into a flying fish and gone for a swim...
Although he agreed when reached, that the conditions were apt to be more favorable earlier in the day, and for that reason the hour for the Basin regattas had been advanced from 4 to 2 o'clock in recent years, W. J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, declared that it was unlikely that College authorities would sanction the proposal on account of classes. A similar opinion was expressed by Coaches Haines and Sullivan...