Word: crews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generosity of Mrs. Elliot Bacon in providing funds for the erection of a new boat house at Red Top carries forward another stage the project of improving crew quarters for the Yale race. Mrs. Bacon's gift, which closely follows the announcement of the building of the new Varsity Quarters, will provide entirely modern facilities where they have been much needed...
Harvard's crew quarters on the Thames have long been condemned. Without adequate heating equipment and lacking in such necessities as sufficient showers and drying rooms, the buildings used present a sorry contrast to those of Yale. The importance of such a matter as a large enough float for the freshman crew is comprehensible even to those unfamiliar with rowing conditions. To replace the old buildings with modern, sanitary structures will obviously improve the general training conditions. In their excellent position on a bluff overlooking the river, the new buildings will put Harvard's athletes in quarters suitable...
...also learned that Hulburt Johnston '29, University crew manager, had been elected president of the association. He, together with Mr. Parker Hamilton, vice-president, and Mr. Lothrop Withington, secretary-treasurer of the association will handle all the details of the regatta...
...which is open to all preparatory schools in the vicinity of Boston, is held each year to stimulate interest in schoolboy rowing. This year the race for the eights will be divided into two heats, one for private schools and the other for public schools. In the four-oared crew race, however, both divisions will row in the same heat...
...Senior eight piloted by S. W. Swaim '31 fell a full length behind its nearest rival by the time the race had progressed as far as the Harvard Bridge and, under instructions from Coach E. J. Brown '96, did not finish out the last quarter mile. The crew was somewhat handicapped by the presence of several substitutes who had not yet accustomed themselves to the boat...