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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, the class and club crew regatta starts on the Charles. The first event scheduled is a race between the third 1922 crew and the boat representing Stone School. Half an hour later, the Senior, Junior and Sophomore eights will compete for the interclass championship. Indications are that the 1921 boat has a slight advantage over its competitors. In the recent time trials, the Sophomore boat rowed the 1 7-8 mile course in 11 minutes, 11 seconds, the Junior in 11 minutes, 16 seconds, and the Senior in 11 minutes, 35 seconds. The winning...
...Freshman Club race (Eliot A, Thayer A, and Lowell...
Permission has been granted by Dean Greenough for aviators representing the University to leave tomorrow night for Atlantic City, where they will take part in the second series of week-end intercollegiate air races now being held there in conjunction with the Second Pan-American Aeronautical Exposition, under the auspices of the Aero Club of America. Owing to their inability to secure a machine the University aviators did not take part in last Saturday's race...
...recent meeting of the Athletic committee, it was decided to authorize race between the championship class view of the University and the winning Yale class crew, to be held on the Houstonic River course at New Haven on Saturday, May 24. A regatta will be held in the Charles River tomorrow, in which the three upper classes will compete for the University championship. The victorious eight will be chosen to represent the University against Yale. In order to limit expenses the members of that boat will leave here on the 3 o'clock rain on the afternoon of Friday...
...University students, among them President Eliot, then an instructor in the University, secured a "shell" of rather ponderous bulk and steered by the bow oar with the aid of a foot attachment. On the day of the regatta the Harvard oarsmen discovered that fourteen crews were entered in the race and after a consultation they decided that some sort of insignia must be worn for the purpose of distinguishing the Harvard boat from the thirteen others. The upshot was that President Eliot and a fellow oarsmen were dispatched post-haste to Boston to supply the deficiency. The idea of brightly...