Word: river
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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VERY different from the scene to which we are accustomed at the Boat House is that presented on the river at Oxford. Besides the Oxford University Boat Club, which sends the crew to meet Cambridge in the famous race every spring, nearly all of the twenty-four colleges have boat-clubs of their own. The boat-clubs of most of the colleges own barges, - great hulks painted with the colors of the colleges to which they belong. The barges each contain a large club-room and a number of dressing-rooms, and, above, there is a deck from which...
...Bearcamp's river-solitudes...
...fleck the sluggish river's deep...
...Freshman Crew went on the river for the first time Monday. They used the University barge, and rowed well for the first trial...
...less unsteady, and the port is noticeably worse than the starboard. The reinforcement of Mr. Brigham caused some changes in positions which necessarily makes the whole crew a little uneven in movement at first; these are faults, however, which, under their excellent coach and with practice on the river, ought soon to disappear. All things considered, therefore, the prospects of the crew are not at all gloomy...