Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...SAVAGE, Sec.FRESHMAN CREW.- Second crew be dressed to row in the tank at 3 p. m. First crew be dressed to row in the tank...
...swimming tank in the Brokaw Memorial has been open for use during the last few days, although not yet formally handed over to the college authorities, since some further arrangements must be made to perfect the heating apparatus. The tank is over one hundred feet long, about twenty feet wide, and the water is kept at a depth of about seven feet. It is lined with white tile and fitted up with spring boards, trapezes, rings and overhanging rings. The water circulates continually through pipes leading to the immense boiler where the water is heated. The dressing rooms connected with...
Yesterday afternoon the 'varsity crew used the tank for the second time since its completion. The men rowed in the following order: Stroke, Hollister; 7, Jennings; 6, Ames; 5, Perkins; 4, Stevenson; 3, Moulton; 2, Hayes, Stillman; bow, Goodrich, Hall...
...freshman crew, as a whole, will not use the tank to practice in. Instead, the men will be taken in pairs or fours and drilled once or twice a week. At present the candidates are practicing in the rowing room of the Gymnasium...
...candidates for the 'varsity crew now make three boats, and will remain in this force for some time, in all probability. It is hoped that some way may be found whereby tank work may be made more nearly like open-water rowing, and a second plan has been proposed, it being the placing of propellor wheels on each side of the boat to quicken the circulation of the water. The first crew usually rows with this makeup: Stroke, Langford, Patterson, Longacre, Bailey, Rodgers, Marsh, Brown and Whitney...