Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...turning out a good crew, may be resolved into one grand and simple element, and a few minor ones. The all important element is "tubbing"; a "tub" being a clinker-built boat about twelve feet long and four wide, with an experienced oarsman sitting in the stern, and two green hands, or otherwise, at the oars. I say "or otherwise," for even the members of the 'Varsity are tubbed up to the day of the race. When a man is given up as hopeless, he may amuse himself by going down the river in an eight or a four...
...promises of the S. R. A. in regard to pool-selling, accommodations, etc., were observed with the most punctilious exactness. The greatest order and decorum prevailed, and the much-dreaded John Morrissey was rather a blessing than otherwise, by concentrating whatever wickedness there was in town behind the green curtains of his club-house. Never before has Saratoga been filled with so large or so respectable an assemblage as that which thronged to witness the Regatta of 1874, and it is safe to assert that no other place suitable for a regatta can be found to accommodate such a multitude...
From 3 to 5, there will be music on the Green, and dancing in Massachusetts Hall...
From 8 to 10, illumination of Holworthy, and the playing of the band on the Green...
...imparting fresh green to the ground...