Word: oars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This sum of fifty dollars was part of the larger amount of $150 which was to be paid Fearon the boat builder, for a cedar pair-oar built by him for the boat club while I was an officer of that organization...
This agreement was thought to be advantageous to the boat club because it secured for it at cost a pair oar, of which it then stood in need, a test of these inventions of Mr. Fearon, which several graduates prominent in boating matters had recommended as well worth a trial and if they proved to be of value, the sole use of them for one year...
...over the Charles-River course. As early as half-past seven people began to collect on the Beacon-Street wall, and at half-past eight the first race was started. The programme announced eight, events, all of which took place. The last and most interesting contest was the eight-oar race, in which the Crescents, Bradfords and the Harvard 'Varsity competed...
...substitutes are all class crew men. A four-oar has just been secured for them, and will be rigged before the end of the week...
...English crews still use wooden thole pins in preference to the swivel oar locks which they have tried...