Word: launching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...crew showed improvement but good work was impossible owing to the rough water. At present the crew seems to be farther advanced than last year's freshman crew at the same time. Both the university and freshman four-oared crews were sent out in the evening. The Harvard launch, John Harvard, arrived today and is moored to the float...
...practice yesterday the University crew entered the shell from the launch below the Longwood bridge, paddled down stream to a point a few hundred yards below Harvard bridge and back to the boathouse. The men put more life into the work than has been seen for some time past, and there was no loss of drive or shortening of the stroke. Morgan, however, was rather short on his slide, but his work on the whole was creditable, considering the fact that yesterday was only his second trial in the position, and that he has been shifted to the starboard side...
Yesterday the members of the University crew went down stream in the launch Veritas from the University boathouse to the Longwood bridge. There, they took their positions in the shell which had been towed behind the launch. Emmons was first tried at three and rowed down stream in the boat for about three-quarters of a mile. In the first stretch the boat listed badly to star-board at the catch of each stroke, but went more smoothly afterwards. On the way upstream Richards rowed half of the distance, before Morgan succeeded him. The boat rode very steadily when Richards...
Lately the crew has been going down stream in the launch to Longwood bridge and from there has rowed to the Union Boat Club and back to the boathouse without stopping. Yesterday the men showed a good deal more vigor than at the end of last week...
...announced yesterday that L. Burchard '06 and J. G. Smith 3L. will be the judges at the finish of the race, and J. F. Perkins '99 will be the Harvard judge on the referee's launch...