Word: boated
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...four-oared shell are being built for the University crew by W. H. Davy of Cambridge. The order for the shells was placed two weeks ago and the eight-oared shell will be finished in about ten days. In design it will not differ essentially from last year's boat. The four-oared shell will not be finished for three weeks. Davy has built most of the University shells for the past few years...
This afternoon at 4.15 o'clock the University, second, and third crews will hold a race, starting at the bathing beach near the Cottage Farm Bridge and finishing in the basin opposite the Union Boat Club, a distance of somewhat over two miles. The race will be for the purpose of trying out the men under the stress of hard rowing, and it will be carefully watched by Coach Wray from the launch. After the race the squad will be reduced to two eights and a four-oar, and the men dropped will join their class crews, although...
Since February 23, the date of the first work on the water, all three crews have advanced rapidly. The University crew, of late, has run the stroke up high on the last short stretch to the boathouse, and has seemed to move along fairly well. The second boat shows a good drive and dash. The third crew has suffered much from lack of a consistent order...
...election of officers of the Weld Boat Club will be held at the boathouse this afternoon at 3.45 o'clock. A captain, who is general director of all the rowing from the boathouse, under the supervision of the University crew captain, and a secretary are the only two officers. All active members of the Weld Boat Club are eligible to vote...
...Freshman eight has shown a marked development with this week's work. The first crew has been able to keep a fairly consistent order with the result that the boat is moving along better, and the early crudeness is being dropped. Newton at stroke and Strong at 6 seem to have been changes for the better. In the rest of the squad, with the possible exception of the second Freshman, there have been such repeated changes that the men are as yet more or less of an unknown quantity...