Word: launching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Boston tomorrow morning. The men will stay at the Victoria Hotel, so as to be conveniently near the river. The new shell will be taken and, by courtesy of the Union Boat Club, will be kept at its boathouse. The Cornell crew has been tendered the use of the launch "Veritas" by the University crew management...
...however, increased their stroke and caught up slowly with the Freshmen, leaving the Juniors and Sophomores a length behind. Just before Harvard bridge, Webster, who was rowing 6 in the Senior eight, broke his oar and jumped from the boat, narrowly missing being run down by the referee's launch...
...Cornell crew which will arrive on Thursday morning, May 25, will stay at the Hotel Victoria and will keep their shell at the Union Boat Club. They have been tendered the use of the launch "Veritas" for coaching purposes while in Boston. On either Thursday or Friday the Cornell crew will visit Cambridge, as the guests of the University. On Friday both the crews will attend the dual concert of the Harvard and Cornell musical clubs in Sanders Theatre...
Derby, who for several weeks has been rowing in a single shell, was tried at 4. Richardson was changed from 4 to Shepard's place at 2. In the second stretch Bacon took Filley's place at 6. The latter coaching from the launch. Meier took Lawson's place at 5 and Lawson was later shifted to 3. where Tappan has been rowing...
...which was very good time considering the weather conditions. The Seniors showed the better from, but were possibly affected to some extent by the fact that it was their first hard row, and they were not to fresh as the second University crew, which had been towed by the launch the three and a half miles to the starting point. A gain by the second crew of about half a length at the start was increased to nearly a length during the first mile and in turn cut down to about half a length through a spurt by the Seniors...