Word: river
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Saturday, the first three colleges, as named above, voted for Saratoga, while Columbia alone held out for the Poughkeepsie course. On the breaking up of the meeting of the Regatta Committee, it was agreed that if Columbia could get a bill passed by Congress, restricting traffic on the Poughkeepsie river during the day of the race, that the other three college would reconsider their vote. Three weeks were given to Columbia to put this bill through Congress but as the three weeks are up today and nothing has materialized the first decision of the committee will undoubtedly be abided...
...varsity, for it is the only class crew that will represent the college in a race. The other class crews are receiving able coaching and have been since they were first called out, while little attention has been paid to the freshmen since they went on the river. To be sure the 'varsity coxswain has several times coached from the stern of the boat, but this sort of instruction for an untrained crew is not very effective. A coxswain cannot see the faults of the men in the bow without upsetting the trim of the boat. The only...
Neither the 'varsity nor any of the class crews went on the river yesterday on account of the high wind and rough water. Every morning Mr. Faulkner is coaching, in a pair-oared shell, the men who have no morning recitations. The crew is improving daily in watermanship...
...Rindge has just sent a very valuable supplementary collection to the large collection which he gave to the museum in 1883. This latest addition consists of many large chipped obsidian ceremonial implements and came from the Klamath river district of southern Oregon and northern California, where they were washed out in the process of hydraulic mining. In this collection there are also many examples of ancient stone vessels and implements...
Yesterday afternoon the Weld Boat Club eight-oared crew went out on the river in a shell for a short row. This is the first crew to go out in a shell this spring. The order was: Stroke, Stevens; 7, Delaney; 6, Dexter; 5, Matthews; 4, Wilkinson; 3, Hall; 2, Stafford; bow, Dubois...