Word: halcyons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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August 3, Lake Winnepiseogee, Center Harbor, two nilds to windward. Onelda-Harvard; won by two lengths. Halcyon, Yale. The race was rowed in eight-oared barges; time not recorded...
...Garfield has been elected captain of the Halcyon boat club, at St. Paul's, vice A. B. Strange resigned...
There were thirty-nine candidates this year for the Halcyon crew and thirty-eight for the Shattuck, at St. Paul...
There are two boat clubs, the "Halcyon" and the "Shattuck," and each of them have one six oared crew and two four-oared crews. Regattas are held every spring in which single sculls also take part...
About thirty-five men put in an appearance. Most of the candidates are of rather light weight and there are no noticeably large men among them. The temporary captain, J. H. Kidder. was captain of the Halcyon crew which beat the record at St. Paul's by eight and one-half seconds last year; he has been rowing for the last three years...