Word: regattas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Starting tomorrow and continuing until Saturday, a three-day class and club crew regatta will be held on the Charles. On Thursday the class races will be run off; Friday, the club contests; and on Saturday, the University and Freshman first eights will compete...
...approach of the boat races calls to mind the interesting fact, not generally known among Harvard men of this generation, that the adoption of Crimson as the University color was the chance result of a regatta some sixty years...
Prior to 1858 the notion of a distinctive color for each university had not been thought of in American institutions. In the spring of that year, however, a regatta was to be held on the harbor and six enterprising 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...
Rowing is the most popular spring sport in the University. With a class regatta on Thursday deep interest has developed among the contending eights. But it has been the dim prospects of a meeting with a Yale shell that has served to put the increased vitality into the work at the boat house. It is only just that such endeavor should be rewarded, if financially it is possible...
...formed yesterday afternoon at a meeting of all men from 1922 who had been rowing on eights lower than the third. The change from four to three club crews was made in order to promote keener competition and further shifts will be made from time to time before the regatta to make the crews as closely matched as possible...