Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...candidates for the University Crew row every afternoon at four and a half, and they are at present being coached in pair-oars by Mr. Loring, '69. The men run four miles three evenings in the week, but the captain expects them soon to begin to run to Fresh Pond, around the pond, and back to the Square, - a distance of six miles. A boat with stationary seats is being prepared for the crew, and the captain has ready now some uniforms, consisting of shirts, drawers, and stockings, all of crimson, that will be serviceable in cold weather. He intends...
BETWEEN twenty and thirty Freshmen have come forward as candidates for their class crew, and it is probable that before spring six excellent men will be found among this number. The candidates run a half-mile three times a week, and pull a hundred strokes at the weights; both the running distance and the number of strokes will soon be increased, The class has subscribed about $400 to meet the expenses of their crew, and as the most rigid economy is necessary in spending this money, it would be well for the treasurer of the class boat-club to publish...
...have arranged the boats as they crossed the line, although in the first four-oared race the prizes were given to the Weld crew on account of a foul...
...shall hope to see the boating men of '79 begin their gymnasium work early, and keep to it diligently; and if they do not bring us any flags from Saratoga next year, at least we shall be able to say of them, as of the last Freshman crew, it was through no fault of their...
Expenses of crew...