Word: eight-oared
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...eight-oar is being got together to row the University...
...rowing men would not increase in proportion to the number of paying members, and there would be no need of spending all the money on the purchase and repair of boats. Every year the University crew would turn over to the use of the other members one or more eight-oar shells or barges which would have been used but little; and so the number of new boats required would be small. All the crews would in time row in eights; but that would be no disadvantage, as it would be just as easy for a division...
That is, we should have eleven hundred dollars to spend on repairs and new boats, and besides should have the eight-oar cast off by the University crew. The expenses of the crew for this year will not exceed the amount named, and do not need to any year. For four hundred dollars a janitor could be hired to give all his time and care to the premises, and so keep them in much better order than at present...
...Freshmen have voted to challenge Yale to row in an eight-oar...
LETTERS from a Yale graduate appear in the last Yale papers on the mode of managing the Harvard Yale eight-oar race. The writer appears to have given considerable thought to the subject, and his views may be of interest to our boating...