Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton 150-pound crew opened its season with an easy victory over the M. I. T. lightweights that defeated Harvard the following week in the Charles River Basin. Two weeks ago the Yale 150-pound combination took the wash from the Cornell and Pennsylvania shells at Philadelphia, finishing a poor third. As a result, on the basis of earlier races. Princeton is conceded the advantage in tomorrow's contest...
Yesterday afternoon before leaving for Philadelphia for the regatta with Pennsylvania and Navy the first two University eights paddled over the Charles River Basin course in a light workout with a few racing starts...
...Harvard oarsmen will have an opportunity tomorrow both in the morning and the afternoon to become accustomed to the conditions prevailing on the river and work out any muscular kinks acquired during the journey...
...madman was Charles Sims, R. A., who once painted King George with spindle legs, who became a lunatic, who committed suicide by jumping in the Tweed river, who left a note asking the Academy to show the last half dozen canvases he had covered (TIME, April 30). Reluctant, the Hanging Committee obeyed. The pictures were silly and terrible; their names had a dark and foolish clamor-My Pain Sheltering Beneath Your Hand, Here Am I. Passing them at last, to look at Sir William Orpen's bitterly melodramatic The Black Cap, or the clever work of 14-year...
...Cambridge the heavy Harvard crew pushed over a rough mile and three quarters of the Charles River to nose out M. I. T. by a quarter of a length. And on other rivers other crews were practicing, watched by critics who every season go from college to college, watching workouts from launches or from the boathouse platform. Other commentators, believing that things in rowing, more than in any other sport, are decided by training methods, considered the theories and personalities of the various coaches. Most discussed last week was Edward O. Leader (Yale), gruff and domineering, who has built...