Word: boated
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University boat house, which will be vacated soon, has a long history in Harvard rowing. It was built in 1869, about twenty years after rowing had become a recognized College sport at Harvard...
Until 1870 the boat houses used were mere sheds, of private ownership. The sheds were unsafe and unsubstantial, since the ice was apt to carry them away in winter, making them dangerous to keep boats in. It was decided that some improvement was necessary and in 1869 the plans for the present boat house were drawn up. The plans called for $7000, about $4000 of which was raised by subscriptions, baseball games, and amateur theatricals. It was completed in 1869. After the house was finished the University Boat Club, which built it, found it impossible to raise the remainder...
...University boat-house, is now completed, and will be occupied in about a week. All the men who are rowing at the old boat-house will change to the new house. The rowing equipment now in use will be transferred and additions will gradually be made...
...either Nov. 9 or Nov. 15, the new boat-house will be turned over to the University by its donor, the Harvard Club of New York City. The presentation will be made at a mass meeting held probably in Sanders Theatre, but possibly at the boat-house. President Eliot will speak, but further than this no plans have been made. The meeting will be open to members of the University. A committee of four consisting of Austin G. Fox '69 (chairman), A. L. Wetmore '94, H. S. Van Duzer '75 and L. E. Sexton '84 will represent the Harvard Club...
...four graded crews of the Weld Boat Club are now fairly well settled although the orders of the third and fourth vary a little from day to day. The first and second are rowing as they were a week ago except that Snite yesterday took Shuebruk's place at 4 in the first boat as the latter is sick. The first and second Freshman boats are also practically settled, with the exception of one or two places, most of the men on each boat having rowed for some time in their present order. The first is rowing well...