Word: fours
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sledge Expedition by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen. By Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. With an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup. With about 100 Full-page and Numerous Text Illustrations, 16 Colored Plates in Facsimile from Nansen's own Water-Color, Pastel, and Pencil Sketches, and an Etched Portrait, Two Photogravures, and Four Maps. About 1200 pages. Two Volumes, Large Octavo, Gilt Tops, Uncut Edges...
...Four new men have come out to try for the weight events on the Mott Haven Team. They are T. E. Catlin '99, W. A. Boal '00, J. D. Barney '00, and J. N. Trainer '00. As the men have only been out three days it is too early to tell anything about them, but as they are all large and strong they should develop well...
...University crew yesterday afternoon started on a practice four-mile pull, but were swamped after rowing a little over three miles. A strong westerly wind was blowing at four o'clock, but after the launch had been sent down river to make arrangements for having all the bridges raised promptly on a signal from the whistle, it was decided to row in spite of the adverse conditions. The crew paddled up to a point just below the Weld Boat Club house and were started by Mr. Lehmann. They were boated in the following order: Stroke, J. F. Perkins; 7, Goodrich...
...them on Tuesday afternoon. As a consequence of the even playing of the candidates the games between the 'varsity and the reserves are hard fought and are almost as useful in training the men as regular games with other college nines would be. At present the squad contains twenty-four men, but the number will shortly be reduced. On Wednesday, eight men were taken to the training table: Blakely, Dickson, Brown, Radcliff, Robinson, Wilhelm, Jackson and Ritchie, and more will be chosen from time to time as their ability seems to warrant their promotion...
This afternoon the crew will start from the Union boat-house about 4.20 and row four miles up stream, finishing a little above the University boat-house. This is somewhat earlier than the crew has usually begun four mile time rows but the Yale crew has been rowing four mile stretches for nearly two weeks. Mr. Lehmann's especial object in having this trial is to see how the crew will hold together under the strain of such a test...