Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Cutler at bow were slightly off form. The Freshman eight covered about four miles in all. One racing start was tried which went very well, but this crew also lacked the good form which it showed in the morning. The University four rowed down to the railroad bridge and back over the two-mile course to the Navy Yard, being timed by Coxswain King, as Coach Wray was following the other crews in the launch. The time was 13 minutes and 21 seconds, which is considered very fair as the crew rowed against a strong tide. No racing starts were...
...mile. The other four continued for another half-mile, but the eight did not turn back until it had rowed two and a half miles. In the afternoon the freshman crew rowed down-stream two miles at a slow stroke, and the university eight was taken down to the railroad-bridge in the launch and rowed back in a single stretch. The two university and freshman four-oars rowed a half-mile race and the freshmen were given a start of a length. The freshmen came in second. No time was taken...
...time made by the University crew was 20 minutes, 55 seconds, which is exactly the same as that made by the Yale crew last night. The shell was towed down-stream to the start at the railroad bridge, by the "John Harvard," the members of the crew being taken in the launch. At the start the crew went off at the rate of 36 strokes to the minute, but the stroke was soon lowered to 32 and this rate was maintained until the last half-mile of the course, when it was raised gradually to 40 at the finish. Taken...
...given: Engineering 4a, Plane and Topographical Surveying, a full course beginning on June 24 and continuing six weeks; Engineering 4c, Geodetic Surveying, a half-course beginning on July 14 and continuing three weeks, open to students who have passed satisfactorily in Engineering 4a in a previous summer; Engineering 4d, Railroad Engineering, a full course beginning August 4 and continuing five weeks, open to men who have passed Course 4a or its equivalent; Engineering 5b, Elementary Statics, a half-course beginning June 24 and continuing three weeks, open to men who have passed Engineering 1b or its equivalent; Architecture 5d, Resistance...
...Plane and Topographical Surveying, a full course beginning on June 24 and continuing six weeks, $60; Engineering 4c, Geodetic Surveying, a half-course beginning on July 14 and continuing three weeks, open to students who have passed satisfactorily in Course 4a in a previous summer, $30; Engineering 4d, Railroad Engineering, a full course beginning August 4 and continuing five weeks, open to men who have passed Course 4a or its equivalent, $50; Engineering 5b, Elementary Statics, a half-course beginning June 24 and continuing three weeks, open to men who have passed Course 1b or its equivalent, $45; Architecture...