Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Curiosity has prompted a number of well-known oarsmen to visit the tank lately...
Yesterday Captain Herrick tried the effect of attaching strips to the back of the oar-blades, and this no doubt will have the desired result of counteracting excessive pressure on the blades. Other slight changes will of course be made during the year. The tank, however, is at present working almost as well as can be expected...
Hereafter the class crews will row in the tank on the following days: '89, Wednesdays; '90, Fridays; '91, Mondays; '92, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The university crew rows every day at four o'clock...
...especially requested that every one who visits the tank while it is occupied by any crew be careful to remain behind the rope and to abstain from talking or otherwise annoying the men who are at work...
Tuesday afternoon all the candidates for the various crews rowed in the tank under the inspection of Captain Herrick. The following men constituted a second crew: '92, Kidder, Goddard. Porter and Travis; '89, Marvin and Barthelow; '90, Pulsifer and Chamberlain; '91, Goldthwaite...