Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...observation train for the Freshman and four-oared races will leave New London at 9.50 A. M. Tickets for this train may be obtained at $1 each. All tickets may be had at Leavitt & Peirce's or at the railroad offices in Boston...
...annual Harvard-Yale rowing regatta will be held on the Thames, near New London, Conn., on Thursday, June 27. The Freshman eights will start under the New London railroad bridge at 10 o'clock in the morning and will row upstream for two miles, finishing at the Navy Yard. Directly after the finish of the Freshman race, the University four-oared crews will start at the Navy Yard to race upstream. They will finish near the west shore of the Thames, opposite "Red Top." The race between the university eights is scheduled to start in the afternoon...
...minutes and 46 seconds. There was a slightly favoring tide; but Blagden steered a poor course, losing the force of the tide by not staying near enough to the channel. At about 7.15 o'clock the men went in the launch downstream as far as the New London railroad bridge. The crew got away with a good start and rowed about 32 strokes per minute for the first half-mile, which was covered in good time. Then the stroke was lowered until the end of the second mile, where the Freshman eight was waiting off the Navy Yard. Starting...
...crew went down over the first half-mile of the course at thirty strokes to the minute, and then continued downstream another mile and a half and back at easy stretches. The river was rough and much water was shipped. In the afternoon the men rowed downstream to the railroad bridge in short stretches and returned up the four-mile course without a stop. No time was taken as the stroke was kept slow all the way. The boat spaced well between strokes and followed the stroke regularly. At the Navy Yard the Freshmen started about a boat length ahead...
...subsequently enter the University in regular standing, proper credit will be given. The charges to members of the University for the following courses, which will be given, are as follows: Engineering 4a, Plane Surveying, a full course beginning on June 20 and continuing six weeks, $55; Engineering 4d, Railroad Surveying, a full course beginning on August 1 and continuing five weeks, $47.50; Engineering 4c, Geodetic Surveying, a half-course beginning on August 1 and continuing three weeks, $27.50; Engineering 5b, Elementary Statics, a half-course beginning on June 20 and continuing three weeks, $42.50; Engineering 5d, Resistance of Materials...