Word: railroads
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...annual Harvard-Yale boat races will be rowed on the Thames at New London this year on Thursday, June 25. The race between the University eight-oared crews will be rowed upstream over the four-mile course, and will start at 5.30 o'clock from the New London railroad bridge, finishing opposite "Red Top." The race between the University four-oared crews will start at 10.30 o'clock in the morning and will be rowed downstream, probably from the Navy Yard to the New London railroad bridge. Directly after the finish of the four-oared race the Freshman eights will...
...observation train for the Freshman and four-oared races will leave New London at 10.30 A.M. Tickets for this train may be obtained at Leavitt & Peirce's, or at the railroad offices in Boston...
...last meeting of the Corporation on June 8, the following appointments were made for one year from September 1, 1908: W. J. Cunningham, lecturer on railroad operation; G. G. Wilson, Ph.D., lecturer on international law; W. Weitzel, J.U.D., lecturer on the German Civil Code; G. R. Clements, A.M., instructor in mathematics; W. J. Berry, S.M., instructor in mathematics; G. C. Cox, A.M., assistant in philosophy; J. S. Davis '08, assistant in economics; T. H. Jack, A.M., assistant in government; E. R. Lewis '08, assistant in economics; I. L. Sharfman '08, A.B., assistant in economics. The resignation...
Harvard Crew Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 11m 1908.--The University crew had its first real work on the Thames this afternoon when a time trial was held over the four-mile course. After taking the shell down stream to the railroad bridge, the men climbed into their seats from the John Harvard and after one short stretch to limber up, turned and rowed to the line. Without any racing start the shell was carried up stream at the rate of 26 strokes to the minute. This gait was held till the crew reached the three-mile flag; there...
...University four-oared crew had light work in the morning, but in the afternoon rowed eight miles. The men went all the way down to the New London railroad bridge and back. This work helped them to become used to one another and to Cutler's stroke...