Word: boat
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Archaeology and Ethnology, will leave Cambridge today to take charge of an expedition for research in Central America and British Honduras on behalf of the Peabody Museum. With Mr. R. E. Merwin 4G. he will go to New Orleans by train, proceeding from there to Belize, British Honduras, by boat...
...crews will line up for the start a boat's length apart from bow to stern and the starting positions will be indicated by buoys, placed in the river at the proper intervals. Number one in each division will be farthest down-stream. A series of three shots will be fired for a starting signal. Between the first and second shots there will be two minutes, and between the second and third, one minute. The third shot will be the signal for the start. Referees will be stationed along the shore, and bumps will be signalled either through a megaphone...
...much better together. On Wednesday all three eights went down-stream and and on the return row the work of the University crew was good. Thursday's row brought even better results and the eight showed the best form it has so far this year. The power in the boat is being used to better advantage, but the crew is still weak in getting away strongly and quickly at the catch, and lacks a hard drive clean through to the finish...
Yesterday the members of the University and third crews went out in singles with the exception of Newton and Waid, who went out as stroke and 7 in the second boat, the same as a week ago yesterday. By this practice it is evident that Coach Wray has Newton in view as a possible candidate for stroke of the University crew next spring, and by rowing him with Waid in the second crew once a week he can see how well the pair work together, and also better eradicate Newton's tendency to be slow with his hands and body...
...remedy these faults each man in the squad will be required to row at least once a week in a single shell. The single rowing helps each man to calculate his individual effectiveness and teaches him to balance a narrow boat. Single rowing, then, will be a part of the week's routine during the fall practice...