Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largest crowd in the memory of anybody present turned out to watch the holiday regatta, guzzle beer, and listen to the Band. It had an hour extra to do so because rough water in the lower basin delayed the start of the race by an hour...
Times were not particularly impressive but not surprising since the boats battled a slight headwind and a current, probably caused because the sluices of the dam which forms the basin were open at that time. The official estimates were: Cambridge, 9:38; Harvard, 9:43.5; B.U., 10:01; M.I.T...
Crimson sailors finished second yesterday in the Oberg Trophy race held among six Greater Boston colleges in the Basin. M.I.T. topped the group while Tufts, B.U., Northeastern, and B.C. followed Harvard in that order...
Music with Meals. As chaplain of the 1st Marines, Sporrer saw some of the bitterest fighting in Korea, shared the misery of the marines in their bloody, icy, splendid retreat from the Chosen Basin. There he built up his grievances against Army officers whom he accused of incompetence and claimed were "corrupted with a luxurious love of the comforts of life as well as with the lack of courage, bravery and interest in men that are expected . . ." He charged that supplies of such things as "delicate crackers, cookies, cheeses, also vast quantities of beer" being hauled to the front made...
...sophomore and freshman competition winners were also announced. Thomas Sieger Derr, Jr. '53 of Newton and Eliot House, and Marin Samuel Basin '54 of Chicago and Weld Hall were chosen as assistant varsity manager and freshman manager, respectively...