Word: floated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cornell covered the course in 9 minutes, 27 and 3-5, seconds, with Tech trailing in 9:40 and 3-5, and Harvard in 9:45 and 2-5. At the finish the shells were practically awash but all reached to Union Boat Club float before sinking...
...Jayvees, however, were not so fortunate. Their race came off over an hour earlier when the Basin was at its worst, and although all three crews finished the race above water, all sank before they reached the nearby float...
...coaching launches, the "John Harvard" and the "Veritas" drew up at the float of the Newell boathouse yesterday afternoon, completing a trip which started two weeks ago when the two boats left Greenport, Long Island. They were delayed until yesterday at Monument Beach by the rough water conditions in Massachusetts Bay caused by the recent storms...
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...
...special lesson will give the fundamentals of steering, including how to bring a shell to a float without shelling the float, how to take four crews abreast around the sinuous curves of the Charles River, and how to achieve the crowning glory of taking a shell through the right hand arch of the Larz Anderson Bridge, on the way upstream, without running it on shore...