Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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From now until February when the class crews will be called out, there will be no activity in the rowing line except for the Freshman candidates who responded to the general call last week. These men will be given work on the machines and in the tank from henceforth. As there will be no 'Varsity until after the class races the 'Varsity candidates will join their class squads when they are called...
...February, Columbia will open her new gymnasium which has cost $500,000. The building includes an exercise hall 170 feet long by 130 feet wide, a handball room, a room for boxing and wrestling, and a swimming and rowing tank which is the best equipped in the world. This tank is semi-circular in form, with a diameter of 100 feet and a depth of from five to ten feet. Electric lights, protected by plate glass and placed on the bottom will illuminate the water in the tank. The crew will use this tank for indoor practice...
...stream. It is the general opinion that it should not be built on piles and should contain an attractive room, where meetings could be held and trophies kept; that it should, in short, be a rowing centre in every way. The boat house will of course contain a tank...
...When I returned and took the crew on the 19th of March they had been on the water about a week, and during the winter they had done a certain amount of work, not so much as has been usual in former years, in the tank, under the direction of Mr. Storrow, Mr. Mumford and Captain Goodrich...
...work regularly in the Gymnasium. At present the daily routine consists of twenty minutes on the machines, followed by chest weights, dumb-bells, and a short run on the board track. Owing to a scarcity of oars at the boat house the Freshmen have been obliged to use the tank oars in their early work on the river. These will be returned shortly, when a regular set is provided for the Freshmen, and then the Weld candidates will train in the tank. The float at the boat house will be in place by the end of this week...