Word: river
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...race of the 'Varsity fours will be rowed this afternoon at 4.30 over the lower half of the class crew course in the Charles River basin. The start will be made off the Union Boat Club and the finish will be off the Fenway, about 200 yards above the Harvard Bridge...
...considerable experience in rowing, rowed on the Sophomore crew last spring and on winning Weld crews for the past two years. Adams, the bow man, is strong and effective but a clumsy oar. The crew as a whole are in their work the longest on the river, but they are rowing a low stroke for a mile race, and wait on the catch sometimes...
...which are making satisfactory progress. It has been rumored that the squad was to be cut down to eighteen within the next two weeks; but Coach Donovan is so strongly opposed to this that all of the men will probably be kept on as long as the river is open. Donovan is greatly surprised that with so many candidates for the regular Freshman there are not more men taking advantage of the preliminary training given at the Weld...
This afternoon at 2.45 Mr. Lehmann will reach Harvard square, and he will later go down to the river for his first work in preparing a crew for the race next spring. Mr. Lehmann's arrival then means much to the University. It means that last year's tremendous increase of interest in rowing will not be permitted to die down under the discouragement of defeat. It means further that there will be no sweeping change of system as in the past-that on the contrary the principles which served as a pattern for rowing instruction last year will...
...Thacher '82, J. J. Storrow '85, of Boston and Cambridge; George Blagden '56, J. J. Higginson '57, J. H. Robb ('66), A. G. Fox '69, Lawrence Godkin '81, C. D. Dickey, Jr., '82, A. T. French '85, of New York; J. F. Jackson '73, of Fall River; M. S. Greenough '68, of Cleveland, O.; E. W. Frost '84, and W. K. Flint '91, of Milwaukee, Wis.; Dr. John Green '55, and C. R. Sanger '81, of St. Louis, Mo.; A. L. Mills '81, of Portland...