Word: river
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Boating matters are having a great boom at present, owing to the determination of the college to row its annual class race in eights instead of fours. Ward, the well known oarsman, is in charge of the crews, and coaches them in turn every afternoon. The Schuylkill river offers facilities for boating such as very few colleges possess...
...shell seems to be doomed to bad luck. It had a serious collision with one of the Charles river bridges last week...
...play were printed in the Tribune, Sun, and Herald. The final performance was on the evening of Tuesday, the 13th. The play ran even more smoothly than on the previous evening, and almost every feature received an encore. On Wednesday the party left for Boston, via the Fall River Line. During the evening the club entertained the passengers on the steamer by singing on the after deck. The trip was a financial success, and was a most enjoyable affair for all concerned...
...15th of March the 'varsity and the four class crews left the gymnasium for the river. The University crew began practice at first in the heavy barge, which has seen a great deal of service; but after about a week they changed it for Blaike's cedar shall. With the exception of two men the crew is precisely the same as that which represented Harvard at New London last year. The two places left by Penrose, '87, and Storrow are now filled by Remington, '87, and Butler, '88. The former stroked the '87 class boat last year, and the latter...
...seemed as if a larger number than usual remained in Cambridge during the spring recess. Nearly half of the tables at Memorial were occupied, and at night the college dormitories were not at all sparsely illuminated. Also the Cambridge and Charles River roads, for vacation, did a thriving business. The windows in the dormitories had their semi-annual washing, so that it will be some weeks before the "early-rising rosy fingered dawn" will see into the college rooms and disturb the sleepers. Thanks be to the goodies for this boon. The weather during the first half of the recess...