Word: launching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...found who are willing to train earnestly and long, else we cannot even hope for victory. All this is of course very trite and uninteresting, but it is nevertheless the foundation truth of athletic success, and needs to be practiced as well as understood. We do not propose to launch forth into extended exhortations-a style too common in college and school publications-but merely to call to mind the facts. Harvard tried her very best in football this past season. The result was she put into the field the best team she has ever had, and made a better...
...receipts from the Yale games and the reduction in the price of season tickets from $5 to $2.50, comes a short summary of the affairs of the Boat club: The expenses during the last college year were $10,076.17, of which $3.496 was paid for a new steam-launch an unusual expense, which was met chiefly by graduate subscriptions; $880 went for new boats, and $500 for the for the tank in which the crews practice rowing during the winter. The total receipts of the season were $9,918,03, leaving a deficit of $158,14-a very creditable showing...
...steam launch is hauled up at Lawley's shipyard for the winter. The boiler and engine have been taken out and stored...
...amount of $1275.36, leaving an excess of liabilities over assets of only 158.14, a creditable showing in view of the difficulties against which the treasurer contended. The total expenses of the year amounted to $10,076.17. But this large amount must be reduced by the cost of the new launch, $3,250, a special item of expense which was met mainly by subscriptions from graduates collected by Mr. G. T. Keyes. The ordinary expenses of the year were not materially larger than usual. The total receipts of the Boat club from October 3, 1888, to July 30, 1889, were...
...beginning of the last college year the Boat club had no shell that could be used by the University crew even for practice. The old launch was utterly worthless. At present the Boat club has on hand the practically new paper boat and the cedar boat that was used only at New London, These two boats are worth about $600. There is also a new launch in good condition...