Word: launching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...varsity crew rowed yesterday in the following order: Stroke, R. H. Stevenson; 7, Sprague; 6, Shepard; 5, Kernan; 4, T. G. Stevenson; 3, Lewis; 2, Townsend; bow, Forbes. The places of Duffield and Bullard were temporarily filled by Kernan and Shepard. Mr. Watson coached from the launch, which has been put into running order for this fall...
...usual task of the substitutes-carrying the trunks-followed. There was a general choosing of beds and the usual confusion of getting settled. In the midst of all this the Yale launch passed with its crew aboard and saluted with three long blasts of the whistle. At this the Harvard flag was dipped three times in return for the courtesy. In half an hour the launch arrived and at seven o'clock the crew was on the water for its first New London row this year. N. Perkins is not expected until Tuesday; the coaching in the meantime is done...
...RACE.- The class race will be rowed from the Longwood Bridge to the Union boat house at 4.30 p. m. today. The crews must be at the line promptly. The four coxswains will be at the boat house at 12 o'clock to go over the course in the launch. The referee's tug will leave the Harvard Bridge at 3.30 sharp. A few tickets for the referee's tug are on sale at Leavitt and Peirce...
...varsity crew went out yesterday afternoon at the usual time in spite of the rough water. Coach Perkins steered the shell and Dr. W. A. Brooks and Harry Keyes coached the men from the launch...
...Still further, this same feeling is carried into the very life of the oarsmen. The crews mingle at Putney in a thoroughly delightful manner, exchanging social amenities at quarters, and on occasion following one another about the river in the coaching launch. There are no spying substitutes sent out to return with tales that neither deteriorate the form of the watched nor improve that of the watcher...