Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman heavy second boat defeated the Yard third boat and two boats from M.I.T. in an informal race Wednesday. The Crimson shell outstroked the Engineers' second boat freshman heavies and second boat freshman lightweights...
...over seventy years, since the days when it ranged from a mudflat to tidal torrent twice daily, the Charles has been the playground of youthful Harvard galley slaves. Before the turn of the century, boat clubs made rowing attractive; over five hundred undergraduates used to pull oars, and many more thronged to the crew races...
...Saturday afternoon the spectators watching a race from the balcony of the Boat House suddenly crashed through the termite-eaten floors. At the University's suggestion, New York alumni donated $25,000 to construct Newell Boat House. For some reason the donors specified a Japanese-type building, with ornate decorations to "harmonize with Soldiers Field." When the last spires were being attached, a workman, following the precedent of Mrs. O'Leary's cow, kicked over a can of hot creosote. The structure was burnt to the ground, and the alumni were singed too--for the $15,000 necessary to rebuild...
...Freshmen Boat Middlesex...
...also seen the frenzied boil of water as a hook sets firmly, or merely lazed in a boat with a line in his hand, he has discovered what Izaak Walton called the "poetry" of fishing, and has reveled in its "large measure of hope and patience...