Word: regattas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regatta on the Charles with M. I. T. and Pennsylvania on May 21 is practically assured for the lightweight men, although all the arrangements have not yet been completed. This is the date of the previously arranged 150 pound triangular regatta with Yale and Princeton which was to be held on Lake Carnegie...
...Naval Academy eights had an option of making the trip to Cambridge, or entering the Inter-collegiate Regatta at Poughkeepsie in June. It has now been decided to enter the Regatta, although official sanction has not yet been granted...
...built the first cedar shell in America," continued Bill modestly. "It was the boat in which Harvard rowed against Yale in the first regatta between the two Universities. That was about 40 years back, in a little shop near the old Harvard Boathouse before I worked for the College. Those were the days of great races, when the crews used to pose for their pictures with a bunch of daisies in the coxwain's hands...
...Mathematics and Chemistry--"the grade of Assistant Professor being then created for the first time in the University, with a definition that has remained unchanged to this day." He rowed in crews made up of graduate students and a few College officers, and in 1858 took part in a regatta in the first shell ever to appear on the Charles. The choice of crimson as the Harvard color arose out of the fact that Mr. Eliot and a fellow oarsman chose red silk handkerchiefs as the color for the Harvard crew in that regatta. He was doing full College work...
...grappled anc solved. I returned to England anc formed a company, since known as Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co Ltd., to exploit my work (I have ever been known as a good business man). Permanent stations were built. The first commercia transaction was when I followed the Kingstown Regatta races oJ 1898, on a tug behind the yachts flashing results to the Express ai Dublin. That same year, Queer Victoria was on the Isle of Wight during Cowes Week and at her command I kept her in constant touch with H. R. H. Edward (VII) of Wales...