Word: speed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...then only a few days rest before the race. From all appearances it will be a race of an extremely lively and fast Harvard crew against the best Yale crew of recent years, with very little claim of superiority for either boat until they have actually measured their speed over the course...
...Yale quarters at Gales Ferry, and the Yale crew appears to be fully as fast as last year's eight with the added advantage of a little more weight. Like all of Kennedy's crews, their blade work is extremely smooth and clean and they seem to have good speed. Both eights are stroked by men who have never rowed in a University shell before, but they both have the advantage of veteran oarsmen just behind them at number seven. There are more men of experience in the University boat than in Yale's, but the advantage is extremely small...
...covering the distance in 5 minutes, 47 seconds, and the half-mile in 2 minutes, 55 seconds. The crew rowed hard all the way, but the time is not considered particularly encouraging. The University four-oared also rowed on the course in the morning. They did not try for speed, but were sent over the first half-mile at an easy gait, covering the distance in 2 minutes, 58 seconds. The morning work of both the University and Freshman eights consisted in padding about one and a half miles...
...needed statement of the organization and purposes of several new clubs of Harvard men is a valuable contribution to this issue. Most important is the new Harvard Club of Boston, which started only a few weeks ago but has grown with astonishing speed to a membership of 700. O. B. Roberts '86 is the author of this sketch. Professor W. M. Davis '69 describes the Harvard Travelers' Club, an organization dating from 1902, whose membership is limited to men who have had unusual opportunities for travel. The Cosmopolitan Club, described by J. D. Greene '96, is familiar to the undergraduates...
...below the Navy Yard. There, after turning, a short distance was covered with the stroke at 30. This stretch was followed by a racing start that was better than any Harvard crew has made on the Thames for the past three years. The boat shot along at a remarkable speed and the men kept together almost to perfection. The next stretch was a long one again, with a very slow stroke until opposite the boat house, where ten fast strokes were taken. Then after another short turn down stream the crew left the water...