Word: boat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia boat club has taken action on the challenge of the Yale freshman, and has decided to consent to the participation of Yale in the Columbia-Harvard freshman race, provided Harvard is willing. If Harvard does not agree to this, the challenge will not be accepted...
...University crew. We are not. There is but one time to determine what stroke a crew is rowing, and that is during the race: different individuals often use different methods in teaching precisely the same stroke. Those methods, to, will depend largely upon the men in the boat and their tendency to fall into faults...
...smooth heave, and from the moment the oar enters the water until it reaches the air, the oarsman is almost standing on the stretcher. In direct contrast to the English stroke, his weight is not resting heavily on the seat, or at eight angles to the direction of the boat. Moreover, the boat is rigged close; the stretchers are not more than twelve inches from the end of the slide; the slides are lengthened, too, from twenty-six to twenty-eight inches, and thus give the calves and thighs additional possibilities. To guard against the seat running away before...
...Hasty Pudding Club will play for the members only on April 1st in Cambridge. They will take the boat for New York on Wednesday evening, April 3d, and will play at the Berkeley Lyceum, on April 4, 5, and 6. On April 25, 26, and 27, public entertainments will be given in Boston in Union Hall, Boylston street. The play is called "Duenna, or the Freak, the Frump and the Friar...
...eight for the purpose of giving the 'Varsity practice, is a source of encouragement and an incentive to hard work. And the practical value of such a crew will, we hope, be great. The Athletic club crew is composed entirely of men who have rowed in the 'Varsity boat in the past few years, and it promises to give this years, 'Varsity plenty of hard practice. The coaching that the members of the graduate crew can give may be of considerable value...