Word: eight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...eight-oared shell and a four-oared shell are being built for the University crew by W. H. Davy of Cambridge. The order for the shells was placed two weeks ago and the eight-oared shell will be finished in about ten days. In design it will not differ essentially from last year's boat. The four-oared shell will not be finished for three weeks. Davy has built most of the University shells for the past few years...
Today, beginning with lunch at 1 o'clock, the University crew training table will start at the Varsity Club. Only the members of the University eight, together with Coach Wray, will be taken on at first, but it is expected that a few more men with the managers will be added after the race at the end of this week. The men who will go to the training table today are: Bacon, E. Cutler, R. Cutler, Faulkner, Lunt, Sargent, Waid, and Withington...
...University crew management has recently announced the receipt of a gift of a new eight oared shell from Mrs. Robert L. Bacon of New York. The order has just been placed with George Sims and Son of Putney, England, the same firm which has made several shells for the crew. The new shell will arrive in time for the intercollegiate races late in the spring...
...second boat there was a change at the beginning of the week, P. Withington going from 5 to 7 on Monday. Smith who had been rowing 7 regularly took his place at 5. The second boat is a well-balanced eight, far more advanced than that of last year at this time...
...Freshman eight has shown a marked development with this week's work. The first crew has been able to keep a fairly consistent order with the result that the boat is moving along better, and the early crudeness is being dropped. Newton at stroke and Strong at 6 seem to have been changes for the better. In the rest of the squad, with the possible exception of the second Freshman, there have been such repeated changes that the men are as yet more or less of an unknown quantity...