Word: boat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual spring races of the Union boat club take place this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. They promise to be quite as interesting this year as in former years. The entries are as follows...
...shell for the University crew, which has been in course of construction this year under the supervision of E. Waters and Sons, at Troy, N. Y., reached New Haven last week. It is finished in very light color and is a very pretty craft. The boat weighs less than eight-oared shells usually do. The hull has not been constructed as was ordered, and the paper has not hardened enough to make the boat rigid. It is not likely the boat can be used, and it will have to be returned to Waters. It is not yet known what shell...
Farther down the river is the Harvard club-house. The boat house was damaged somewhat in the great blizzard. It is built partly on a stone foundation and partly upon piles and is not anchored in any way, being held down merely by its own weight. The heavy winds blew the house off the piles and left it lying on one side partly twisted around, The New London Northern Railway Company will make the necessary repairs before the crews arrive on the 18th. It is said that the river is much higher this year and there...
Trafford is again rowing in the 'varsity boat...
Burgess, '87, of the '85 and '86 'varsity crews was up the river in a single yesterday and stopped at the boat house...