Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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EVER since the river closed the candidates for the crew have been steadily at work. Five afternoons in the week, from half after four until five o'clock, the crew works in two gangs; one gang rowing at the hydraulic machines in their recently refitted gymnasium in the boat-house, while the other runs between two and three miles...
...University crew took its last row for the season on Monday, having had more than eight weeks of practice on the river. Never before, we believe, has nearly so much work been accomplished in the fall term by a Harvard crew; and never before has a Harvard crew been, at this time, so far advanced. Fourteen men will now leave the boat and commence work on the machines...
...Preface to "Fair Harvard" the author states, that when he showed his production to a friend, before its publication, and asked his advice, the advice was to this effect: to do one of two things, either burn the book or throw it into the North River. If some kind friend had overlooked "Student Life at Harvard," the advanced sheets of which are before us, and induced the author to adopt a course similar to one of these, the world would have been no great loser. We understand fully that to paint life here in such a way that everybody will...
...candidates for the University crew are Legate, Lemoyne, Harriman, of '77; Bancroft, Loring, Lemoyne, Littauer, Harding, of '78; Jacobs, Brigham, Schwartz, Crocker, Preston, Smith, of '79. An eight and six are still on the river. Mr. Dana of the Law School is looking after the "torpids...
...Executive Committee H. U. B. C., together with the captains of the clubs, have voted to consider that first crews are entered for the four-oared race. The six-oared race will be made up of second crews. The fall races will be over the Charles River course...