Word: launching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Francis G. Peabody preached in Appleton Chapel last night, taking as the text for his sermon the fourth and fifth verses from the fifth chapter of St. Luke: "He said unto Simon, launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all night and taken nothing; nevertheless at they word I will let down...
...launch "Veritas" was hauled out and beached beside the new boat house yesterday morning. The John Harvard will be handed out beside her at once...
...clock yesterday afternoon. The meeting at the boat house was attended by about eight hundred students who had marched down from the Yard with the University band. The speakers, President Eliot, Professor Hollis, Edmund Wetmore '06 and A. G. Fox '65 came up to the boat house in the launch "John Harvard," together with Major Higginson h. '82, E. C. Storrow '89, G. W. Weld '60 and others...
...Newell club, the first and second graded crews were followed by the launch in a time-row over the regular course. The second crew was given a start of a length and a half, but the first made the course in quicker time, 9ms., 20s., the second finished in 9ms., 37s. On the home stretch a further test was made, and this time the first Newell eight did 15 strokes in 22 seconds. The order of the first crew is as follows: Stroke, Brownell; 7, Blake; 6, Bullard; 5, Henderson; 4, Perkins; 3, Swain; 2, Morris: bow, Goodell...
...well toward completion. On the morning of December 27 a fire started in a small work-house where workmen were heating creosote shingle-stain. An explosion followed, which set fire to the boat house and in a very short time the building had burned to the ground. The launch, Frank Thompson, which was lying near, was also destroyed...