Word: boats
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...more space. As has already been said, it is remarkable for the vivid, and, on the whole, correct idea which it gives us of Harvard men and Harvard life. Some of the scenes are particularly well drawn, - the account of the foot-ball match, for instance, that of the boat-race, and the description of Class Day. The tone of the book is thoroughly good and manly, always excepting the love-scenes, which give little pleasure and excite still less sympathy...
...mile race, is 45, and who, on spurts, run up to 48 and 50 with ease to themselves; who are utterly without "form" of any sort; who set at defiance many of the traditional rules of training, and yet manage to carry their old 22-inch tub of a boat over three miles of rough water in 18.44 1/2, can hardly be conjectured...
Long Pull. - On May 18 a six-oared barge of the Undine Boat Club of Sacramento, Cal., rowed from that city to Vallejo, a distance of one hundred miles, in 22 hours...
...Cups. - It is to be hoped that the beauty of the cups given by the H. A. A. will induce men to train hard next fall. The prizes offered then will be as handsome as those given now, and as the boat-houses are to be closed for the year in June, it is to be hoped that every one who can will train for and enter into the athletic sports...
...crew leaves here the 22d, the day after Class Day, and will go immediately to their quarters, which are four miles from New London, and on the opposite bank of the river, very near the start. A boat-house has been built for them in a little cove just before their quarters, and they will row their boat up to it from the town the day of their arrival. The Yale quarters are a mile farther up the river, at Gale's Ferry...