Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upper course. We have two small suggestions to offer to the Boat Club in regard to them: first, that they be started promptly. It has always been the rule to start them a half hour behind time, but November is not September, and it will not be pleasant to sit and shiver on the boat house float while the boats are getting ready; neither will it be pleasant for the men who are waiting on the water. The second suggestion is, give up a place to see the races from. Again turning to our former experience, we remember having...
...seats has been assigned to each section, and it is of the greatest importance that every man should sit with his section. The rows are numbered beginning with...
...return to the crew's daily routine. After breakfast, the men do whatever they feel like. Some sit down to write letters, some read or talk, - I have seen none studying as yet. Others amuse themselves by watching through a telescope the various steam yachts and sail-boats which are continually passing. At about ten the crew walk down to the little boat-house, and get ready for their morning pull. The shell in use now is the old '85 boat, in which the 'varsity won their races last year. It is probably not quite as strong and stiff...
...Upstairs there are a number of other sleeping apartments, which impress one as being rather too small for comfort. In front of the house there is a flag-pole, upon which waves the Columbia blue and white, and near this is a little summer house, where the men usually sit in the evening...
...ribbons, and every available bit of standing room in the grand-stand and behind the foullines was occupied. The Yale managers seemed indifferent as to whether the Harvard men should be seated or not; the CRIMSON scorer was refused a seat in the grand-stand, and was forced to sit on the grass; and the whole Harvard delegation, though extremely orderly, was constantly annoyed with commands to "keep back" from an officious policeman; they ???eered heartily throughout the game, not withstanding. Harvard won the toss, and sent Yale...