Word: boat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University boat club ordered, over a month ago, a new paper shell of Waters, the well-known boat builder...
There are a great many candidates, and all seem to be trying hard for places in the boat. The crew is coached by its captain...
...during the fall by Hammond, No. 7 of last year's crew. At Christmas time Hammond resigned and Bishop, who was the first freshman captain, was re-elected. A great deal of energy was shown in getting out new men, and as a result the empty places in the boat promise to be well filled. All the men are now rowing, and the crew as at present made is as follows: Stroke, Bishop; 7, Hammond; 6, Perkins; 5, Tallant; 4, Goldthwaite; 3, Randall; 2, Shaw; bow, Parker; substitutes-Everett, Wainwright, Marston. Their personal peculiarities in rowing...
...Shattuck crew at St. Paul's has ordered a new four-oared gig for the second crew. It is being built by Blakey and will be finished by April first. The dimensions of the new boat will be similar to those of the second crew gig owned by the Halcyons, and it is to be fitted out with all the latest improvements in the way of oarlocks, slides...
There are two boat clubs, the "Halcyon" and the "Shattuck," and each of them have one six oared crew and two four-oared crews. Regattas are held every spring in which single sculls also take part...