Word: lapstreak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next recorded match occurred four years later, and was the beginning of a series as follows, all over the same course: July 26, 1859. Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, Mass., one-and-a-half miles up the lake and back; Harvard (shell) 19.18; Yale, (shell), 20.18, Harvard, (lapstreak), 21.13, Brown, (lapstreak...
July 26, 1859. Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, Mass., one-and-a-half miles up the lake and back.- Harvard (shell), 19. 18; Yale (shell), 20.18; Harvard (lapstreak), 21.13; Brown (lapstreak...
...this time rowing had a firm footing here, and a boat was built solely for purposes of speed. She was named the "Harvard," and was of the design known as "lapstreak." To shelter her a boat-house was built. Hitherto the boat had been kept in old sheds or moored on the river...
...strolled to the riverside and crowed the edge of the boat-house platform, all eager to see the University crew take their last pull of the year upon the Charles. At about half-past four, the two substitutes, Keith and Yocum, '85, came out, and placing their pair-oar lapstreak in the water pulled away with a swinging stroke toward the lower basin. Hardly were they out of sight when Captain Perkins gave the orders to bring out the new shell. The boat which the crew rowed in is the new one lately received from Waters of Troy...
Many of our students before entering college, have been accustomed to take a large amount of exercise in rowing. That is to say, they have been wont to go upon the water in some ordinary Whitehall or lapstreak boat for an afternoon's pull, which gave them not only splendid exercise, but also a great amount of pleasure. When these men enter college, some, of course, obtain seats in their class boats, but the great majority are obliged to forego their favorite sport until the summer vacation, merely from the lack of opportunity for exercise afforded by our present boating...