Word: launching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cook, '76, will meet the crew as soon as they reach New London. The launch has already been sent up. The crew will practice twice every day, but will do no very hard work until the race...
Harvard will use the launch "Niantic" to coach from, but unfortunately it is not fast enough to keep up to the crew when speeding...
...crew leaves Cambridge for New London at twelve o'clock to-day. They take with them the cedar and paper shells which were used by last year's crew. As the steam launch is now unfit for use, the management have hired the little launch "Niantic" at New London. The coaching will be done from this craft. Messrs. Watson, Peabody and Keyes, of the graduate committee, will accompany the crew. Mr. Bacon will go down later. The work of coaching the University crew will fall principally upon Mr. Watson. Mr. Peabody will give most of his attention to the freshmen...
...Varsity launch has been found to be completely worthless since the accident, and some other arrangement will have to be made for coaching the crew at New London...
...long period of practice on the Thames before the race with the Harvard freshmen. W. A. Meikleham of the '86 Columbia 'varsity crew is coaching them; although he is not able on account of his ill health to row with them, he follows them in the Columbia steam launch, the "Carrie Goodwin." Columbia is quartered at Captain Brown's, and just across the road from them is the house of Captain Latham Brown where the Yale crews will reside. They are expected to arrive about the 20th or 21st. Several Yale undergraduates have chartered some private residences near...