Word: launching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...beautification of the banks all along the river. Aside from this, the dam and basin will greatly improve the river for University rowing. It will obviate the necessity for rowing at low-tide in a very narrow channel, as at present, and will facilitate coaching by allowing the launch to keep alongside the crew even at the narrowest parts of the river...
...Weld and the Newell Boat Clubs will be open on Monday and fall rowing will probably begin then. The launch "John Harvard" is now ready, but the "Veritas" as usual will not be used until the spring. No definite plans have as yet been made for the fall work, but its general character will be the same as heretofore. Graded crews and separate Freshman crews will be formed at both clubs and a series of races will be held, probably in the first part of November...
GALES FERRY, June 5--The Yale university, four-oared, and freshman crews went out on the river at 9.45 o'clock this morning. The four-oared dropped out at the end of the first mile because of the wash from the launch. At the end of the two-mile the university and freshman crews stopped with the freshman a half a length ahead. The freshman crew went out again at 5.30 o'clock this afternoon and the university and four-oared at 6 o'clock. The university crew was particularly coached on getting a quick catch. Several...
...University crew squad will leave the Square at 2.20 o'clock this afternoon and will take the 3.04 o'clock train from the Back Bay station for New London, where they will arrive at 5.40 o'clock. The launch "John Harvard" will meet the men on their arrival and carry them to "Red Top" in time for a short row before dinner. Both the University and Freshman shells were sent to New London last night and will be rigged today by Hart and Lynch, the Newell and Weld boat-builders, so as to be ready for use this afternoon...
...crew will leave for New London on Friday. The launch "John Harvard," which will be used at New London by the coaches and in the race on June 25, was sent away yesterday...