Word: basins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's University crew cut ten seconds off its best record of the year thus far when it rowed the mile and three-quarters course in the Basin Saturday in nine minutes and 20 seconds. The previous course record of nine minutes and 30 seconds, but five seconds worse than that set by Princeton a year ago, was made during the April recess...
...Colloredo-Mansfeld '32 stroked the first eight, J. E. Lawrence '31 the Jayvees, and M. R. Brownell, Jr. '30 the third shell. Coach Whiteside plans to have two more trial races between today and Wednesday, then to rest his men in preparation for the regatta in the Basin with M. I. T. on Saturday. That afternoon three races are scheduled. The two University boats will meet, following races between the Crimson and M. I. T. Jayvee eights, the two 150-pound boats, and the Freshman crews...
...President Hoover last week motored around the tidal basin in Washington's Potomac Park, admired, along with thousands of ordinary citizens, the first pinkish-white bloom of the famed Japanese cherry trees which 'Mrs. William Howard Taft. when her husband was in the White House, received as a present from the Mikado and presented to the nation...
...excellent musician, the world's greatest virtuoso on the double bass as well as one of the great conductors. His past has been romantic: in Russia before the Revolution he used to sail with his orchestra up and down the Volga, giving concerts in all the basin towns, introducing much new music. He has great personal magnetism-the kind that makes female hearts beat fast at every concert, although his matronly-looking wife is always present, sitting well back on the right. Surest sign of his Boston success is the fact that he has been admitted to the Somerset...
...will be a faculty of some 1,400 teachers and research ers' to bully, cajole, flatter. Greatest trust of all will be a student body, 14,000 strong, which lives in 124 fraternity and dormitory houses, goes to watch "Big Ten" football games in a $2,000,000 cement basin which seats 70,000, and gave Footballer Harold ("Red") Grange to the world...