Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson, which has steadily improved since the beginning of the season, will have to boat the Indians if it wants a chance to take the Ivy League...
...test consists of naming the parts of a boat, tying knots, and putting a dinghy through some elementary maneuvers. The trio expects to pass by next week, and then they will once more be ready to race the yacht team over a Charles River course...
Previous athletic relationships between Harvard and Radcliffe have generally been limited to crew. During the war, an Annex outfit whipped an informal Harvard eight when the Crimson boat mistakenly ceased rowing one bridge short of the finish line...
Harvard's yacht team has agreed to race a Radcliffe boat for the supremacy of the Charles--on the condition that the losing team must give its shirts to the winners...
...unpredictable Crowninshields, merchant mariners of Salem (Mass.), deserve a place of their own in New England history. They built one of the great fortunes of post-Revolutionary days, went cruising to the Mediterranean in a fabulous pleasure boat named Cleopatra's Barge, and fervently supported Thomas Jefferson. One Crowninshield hanged himself on the eve of his trial in a sensational murder case. Another left an account of his travels (Journal of Captain John Crowninshield at Calcutta, 1797-1798, When Master of the Ship Belisarius*) that is far better than most fiction...