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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Because of insufficient attendance at the meeting yesterday the election of captains of the class crews was postponed until 3.45 o'clock this afternoon. Those who rowed in the class races last spring and those recently dropped from the University crew squad are expected to report in the Weld boat house today for the election...
...elections for captains of the class crews will be held this afternoon at 3.45 o'clock in the Weld Boat House. The following men who rowed on the class crews last year are eligible to vote: Adams, Ball, Butler, Buxton, Coit, Comstock, Crandall, Despard, Ellis, Harding, Henry, Hyde, Loring, Morgan, Rackemann, Roche, Simon, Wentworth, J. Whitney, Williams, Wood...
...this place for several weeks, and the change seems all the more sudden, since Sargent had apparently been dropped from the squad after the race on Saturday. As a result of this shift Morgan will go to the second crew, probably at number four. Yesterday he stroked the second boat in the absence of Reece, who is suffering from a slight cold...
...Saturday afternoon the second University crew defeated the third and fourth crews in a fast and exciting race on the Charles River. At the finish the second boat led the third by something less than half a length; the fourth boat was over a length behind the third. The time made was excellent, the course of nearly one and seven-eighths miles being covered in 9 minutes, 12 seconds. The record for the course is 9 minutes, 19 seconds; but as the crews on Saturday started a block nearer the finish than the full course requires, the time cannot...
...seventeen minutes past three, Captian Richardson fired the starting gun from the bow of the John Harvard. Each crew caught the water at the same time; the second boat held the Boston side of the river, the fourth the Cambridge side, with the third between. J. Cutler, stroking the third, at once brought his crew into the lead by a few yards, and the fourth dropped back behind the second by about the same distance; each crew was rowing 30 strokes to the minute. In this same relative position the first two crews swept under the Harvard Bridge...