Word: river
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rowing. There are now in the boat-house a fair number of pair-oared working boats, which are not used from one season to another. Although the Charles is not the most pleasing of waters on which a young man may exercise his muscle with the oars, yet the river is not so bad after all, and surely there ought to be awakened among our undergraduates a greater desire for universal excellence in boating. There are a few private shells at the boathouse which their owners use semi occasionally, but as for other students they are but very rarely seen...
Although not yet definitely settled, it is almost certain that the annual regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen will be rowed on the Hudson River, near Albany...
...proposed Charles River bridge, between Cambridgeport and Back Bay, which in all probability will be constructed in a year or two, concerns Harvard in more ways than one. The value to the college of having this new route to Boston needs no explanation. The sooner the bridge is completed the better. But the fact that the bridge was to cross the two-mile course, used by the Union and Harvard boat clubs, for a while threatened to impair the boating facilities hitherto enjoyed by our various crews. Arrangements have at last been made, however, by the Union Boat Club, whereby...
...freshmen were the first to appear, carrying the varsity barge down to the water with great pride and care. They started off, stroke and seven taking up the stroke, and going up the river around the point under Capt. Mumford's directions. They were gone about a half hour when they came back, all rowing together. They rowed in fair form for a freshman crew, especially stroke, two and bow. As soon as '89 was through, the 'varsity climbed into their barge and disappeared up the river, rowing easily and slowly till out of sight. In about ten minutes...
...through the boat house, asking the difference between a shell and a barge, or a sliding-seat and a stretcher; and one verdant youth created much merriment by remarking that "our crew isn't rowing badly at all," and then pointing to '86 making their way slowly down the river...