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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yesterday afternoon Senior crews rowed from the Newell boathouse, being the first upperclass eights to go on the river this spring. The crews rowed upstream a short distance and back. In spite of the fact that it was the first time out the crews rowed in good form...
...same general practice in rudimentary work has been given the University baseball squad during the past week as formerly. In addition to the regular batting and fielding work, practice has been given in bunting and base-slidding. The batting has continued promising in spite of an increase of speed by the pitchers, but the bunting is crude. Next week the pitchers will begin to use curves, and it is hoped that with the reduced squad simple pivot plays and catching men between bases can be commenced...
Yesterday afternoon the Freshman crew went out on the river for the first time this season. The crew used an old barge, which they boarded from the shore near the Newell Boat Club. In spite of the floating ice in the river, they rowed a short distance above the Boylston street bridge and back. Considering the fact that it was the first day on the river, the work was very encouraging...
Princeton won the intercollegiate swimming championship by defeating the University team at Princeton on Saturday night by the score of 31 to 21. In spite of the fact that Harvard won only one event, the 220-yard swim, the meet was well contested and unusually excellent, three intercollegiate records being broken...
...spite of the fact that the University team has lost by graduation six men of the team that defeated Columbia last year, the development this year has been rapid; and although the Columbia team has had more experience than the University team, the meet tonight should be very close. The judges will be Captain H. Koehler of the Army, Mr. F. Dohs, formerly gymnastic instructor at the Hemenway gymnasium, Mr. E. Hang, of the DeWitt Clinton High School, New York, and Mr. G. Bohrer of the New York Educational Alliance. The Columbia team will give a dinner to the University...