Word: eight
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seems quite possible to remedy this conflict by a compromise which can hardly affect seriously the interests of either occasion. If the eight management could arrange to have the race one day earlier, that is Thursday, the 24th, instead of on the 25th, the crew would still have seventeen days on the Hudson (counting from Wednesday, June 2), even if there were no rowing on Sundays. It is hard to believe that the difference between seventeen and eighteen days at Poughkeepsie can affect the chances of the race. With Thursday as the new date, the Class Day exercises could then...
...preliminary baseball practice has been inaugurated. For over a week sixty-two candidates for the freshman team have been practicing in the cage under the direction of Captain Wilson and several of last year's 'varsity nine. The number has now been reduced to twenty-eight and some promising material has been developed. All candidates from the other classes have now been called out for the cage work. These men have been doing light works. in the gymnasium for the past two weeks. Arrangements have been completed for the introduction of the game of basketball into Princeton. The matter...
...following candidates for the Yale crew have been taken to the training table: Captain Bailey, Langford, Simpson, Whitney, Marsh, Campbell, Mills, Parkhurst, Rogers and Patterson. Of these men, Langford, Simpson, and Captain Bailey rowed on last year's eight...
...Varsity barge which is being built by W. H. Davy will be ready by March 17, when the contract calls for it. The barge is an eight oared boat, modelled from the '98 barge, excepting that it is 3-4 of an inch less in depth and is side-decked. She measures exactly 53 feet...
Yesterday afternoon for the first time this year the University crew candidates rowed on the river. As the gangway had not been put down it was impossible to get an eight in the water, and so the practice was in pairs. These men rowed together: Hollister and Sprague, Boardman and Moulton, J. F. Perkins and Marvin, Thomson and Goodrich, Bull and J. H. Perkins. Captain Goodrich coached from the coxswain 's seat in the pair...