Word: boats
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...REDUCTION of the membership fee for joining the boat-clubs has been made. $ 6.50 is the price of a ticket...
THOSE who wish to see "the best Freshman crew Harvard ever had" have only to visit the boat-house any afternoon...
...earlier than they did last year. The men that pulled were: Crocker, Brigham, Littaner, Jacobs, Stow, Schwartz, Smith, stroke Bancroft, and coxswain Allen; and, considering that it is the first time for three months that they have had oars in their hands, they pulled remarkably well. The boat first went down the river, then turned and passed the boat-house, and was greeted by a "three times three" from the crowd which had come down to see them. A very pleasant little attention to the men who had been working so diligently all winter...
...most important events of the week is the decision of the boat-club officers and the executive committee of the University in regard to the management of the spring races. We note with pleasure that they have determined to adhere rigorously to their part of the bargain with Mr. Blakey. In another column will be found an account of the meeting and the programme of the approaching races. It is to be hoped that the Union Boat-Club will consider favorably the plan proposed for the combination regatta between the sixes and also between the fours, as the entrance...
...Sunday Herald gives an account of a wonderful light-weight six-oar of the Dauntless Boat-Club of New York. Their record shows what training and good management will do. The heaviest man in this crew is 145 pounds in weight, while the stroke and bow each weigh 115, and the average weight of the crew is only 131. Last year they defeated, among others, the Neptune Six, composed of such men as Kennedy of Yale, King of Cornell, Riley the sculler, Johnson, Keator, and Shand, - a crew which in weight, age, and reputation far surpassed them. The record...