Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feature of the fall rowing program will be the Thomas W. Slocum Cup race for Freshman intramural crews to be held during the first week of November. The names of the winners are engraved on the cup. There will also be two singles regattas one for the Houses and one open university regatta. What there will be of rowing eights will be informal and will have as its aim the development of oarsmen for the spring House boats...
...afternoon last week on the trim lawns of the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes. Here and there a peer, dangling a strawberry, gazed into the middle distance for a patch of white canvas against the blue of The Solent. In full swing was the Squadron's regatta...
...Vernon, Arlington, etc., etc. Scouts swarmed through Washington buying films for their perpetual photographing. On six nights there were "arena displays" given at the foot of the Washington Monument by Scouts of two regions (there are twelve in the U. S.). One afternoon there was a Sea Scout regatta, one evening a fireworks display. But more fascinating than spectacles, drills or speeches by oldsters about Scout ideals was the extracurricular activity in which all 25,000 assiduously engaged-swapping. To Washington they had brought a strange assortment of impedimenta: wampum, pine cones, stuffed birds, sharks teeth, shells, sponges, live hoot...
...last year's Intercollegiate Regatta at Poughkeepsie, Washington scored a clean sweep. Had Washington sent no crews at all, last week's Poughkeepsie Regatta would still have amounted to a demonstration of Washington's rowing supremacy. Every shell on the Hudson except Syracuse and Columbia used the Washington technique of a short "layback" and a swift catch. But none could flip the blades back faster than Washington's oarsmen, who concentrated their strength in the middle of the stroke, made most headway even in choppy water...
Callow journeyed to New London, Conn, for the Harvard-Yale Regatta, joined Harvard's young, bespectacled Tom Bolles in the coach's launch as he put the Crimson shells through final practice Spins. Thus fortified, Harvard's varsity next day launched into a low, calm, powerful stroke, let Yale spend itself in a gallant first two miles. Midway up the Thames, Harvard led by a length, was gaining at 30 strokes to the minute. At the three-mile mark Yale frantically went to 34, then to 36, but Tom Bolles's first Crimson crew, ably stroked...