Word: float
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Wellesley freshmen have a very odd custom concerning their class colors. They choose the colors in June, but endeavor to keep them secret until "Float Day" in June. Then they make them known with great celebration...
...river has now commenced in earnest. Yesterday morning both crews, freshman and 'varsity arose at seven o'clock, took a mile walk and breakfasted. They then played ball and sat around till eleven o'clock, when they went out for their morning row. They had hardly left the float and started when the Yale launch, with Perey Boltou and Bob. Cook on board, darted out from their float and followed. They were bent on seeing what new points the Harvard men had picked up and how they rowed, but after following them for half an hour they went back...
...float is in position and the bridges or gang-ways will be adjusted in a few days. Before the end of the week eleven boats in all will have been placed in the house. A janitor has been procured who has had experience at New York both as janitor and boat builder, and the indications are that the place will be ready for use in a little over a week. At the Harvard boat houses everything is in order to begin the season. The large float is adjusted and the bridges on, but the small float is still useless...
...rarely go into rowing for fun, but to get on a crew. Heretofore there have been no facilities for anything else; but Mr. Weld '60, has built and equipped a boat house such as has never been seen at Harvard before. There have been enough boats built to float fifty to seventy men at one time and there are two hundred lockers, two bath-rooms, a steam heated meeting room and space for an unlimited number of private boats. A fee of five dollars will be charged to each undergraduate to join the club and one dollar a year...
During the severe frost of Friday and Saturday, the small fioat left out during the winter was torn away by the ice and the bridge connecting the float with the boat house was broken to pieces. Captain Herrick is having another bridge built, and intends to get the large float out and put in order by next week, if possible. The crew will go on the water in a short time. Mr. Keyes has been away for over a week and Herrick has been coaching. The crew is not chosen definitely and will not be at present...