Word: putney
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Thames Rowing Club of Putney-on-the-Thames, England, has, via a letter to President Lowell, extended the privileges of its organization to members of the University who happen to be in England and feel the loss of the rowing facilities of Weld or Newell, in Cambridge on-the-Charles. The letter to President Lowell follows...
...Department of Social Ethics has received as a gift from Mr. George W. Noyes, treasurer of the Oneida Community, Ltd., a very important collection of the documents of the Putney and Oneida Communistic Associations published between...
...annual boat race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities will take place today on the Thames river, England. The course is four miles long lying between Putney and Mortlake. The Cambridge eight is picked to win by most of the English experts, although Oxford finished three-quarters of a length ahead last year. This race is a historical event, having been originated in 1840, before the introduction of outriggers and sliding seats. Since that time Oxford has won 38 times and Cambridge 30, with one dead heat and five years in which no races were rowed...
...management has recently ordered a new eight-oared shell from George Sims & Sons, of Putney, London, the famous English boat-builders. The shell cost about $800. Her lines are identical with those of last year's eight, which differed from the boat used in 1910 only in a slight change in the camber, or longitudinal curve of the bottom...
Harvard Training Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 13, 1913.--When the University eight took the water this morning a change was made in the shell used. The boat built by Sims of Putney was substituted for that built by Ward in which the crew has been rowing since early this spring. Today the Freshmen used the Ward boat. This change in boats makes them more suitable to the weights of the two crews. The Ward boat formerly used by the University eight, which has a light bow, was observed to ride too far out of the water forward between strokes...