Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although arrangements for the new speed boat have not as yet been completed it probably will be similar to "Red Top" and will be approximately 27-feet long. The order will be sent to Greenport, Long Island next week...
Unfortunately there will not be time enough for the completion of the boat this spring and the "John Harvard", which was to be scrapped on the arrival of the new launch will see another season's service on the Charles River...
Pulling powerfully through waves that shipped at times over the bow and into the shell, the first boat, stroked by captain John Watts '28, failed by a length and a half to overtake the Ineligibles who had been granted an eight length lead at the start. The second crew, paced by James Lawrence Jr. '29, finished in a dead heat with the first eight after getting away from the mark with a three length handicap...
Yesterday, while the University eights were cruising upstream for trial sprints, the two 150-pound crews held a half-mile contest under the supervision of Coach C. S. Heard '25. The first boat, stroked by James de Normandie '29, managed to overcome a length handicap in the distance but could not pull away from the seconds, paced by W. J. Shearer...
When Nathan and Lewis and Mencken put to sea in their pea-green boat there was room for only three. And so Upton Sinclair was left on the beach while the Great Emancipators set forth for New York or heaven. Boston is near the shore, though, and soon the first literary travelling man found himself in the old Back Bay Station. Ever since the porter dropped his luggage in Copley Square, ever since the moment when the man's eyes flooded as he said: "Home, thank God" there has been a Bostonian flavor, even occasionally a Cantabrigian tang...